timef 08/29/2025
- A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs techcrunch.com2025-08-29 23:40:18
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
- Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora techcrunch.com2025-08-29 23:04:10
Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem.
- Host an event beyond the main event: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-08-29 23:00:00
Apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt week (October 25–31) and amplify your brand. Apply before the deadline.
- Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone techcrunch.com2025-08-29 21:19:10
Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India's AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI.
- Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better techcrunch.com2025-08-29 16:34:00
With an interactive library that includes tongue twisters, breathing exercises, and advice on gestures, Vocal Image is also leaning more and more into AI to give automated feedback and personalized tips.
- Trump administration’s deal is structured to prevent Intel from selling foundry unit techcrunch.com2025-08-29 05:56:27
The deal allows the U.S. to take more equity in Intel if the company doesn't retain at least 51% ownership in its foundry business.
- Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training techcrunch.com2025-08-29 04:43:12
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.
- Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates help Commonwealth Fusion Systems raise $863M techcrunch.com2025-08-29 04:25:30
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.
- AI or not, Will Smith’s crowd video is fresh cringe techcrunch.com2025-08-29 04:02:52
Fans accused Will Smith of sharing AI-generated videos from his tour, but the situation is more complicated than it seems.
- Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test techcrunch.com2025-08-29 03:14:21
Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
- US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up techcrunch.com2025-08-29 03:09:54
Companies cancelled $5 billion worth of clean tech manufacturing projects in the U.S. in Q2, mirroring a pullback in the broader manufacturing sector.
- Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform techcrunch.com2025-08-29 01:01:29
With this new feature, users can attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.
- AI or not, Will Smith’s crowd video is fresh cringe techcrunch.com2025-08-29 00:24:02
Fans are accusing Will Smith of sharing an AI-generated video from his tour, but the truth isn't that simple.
- MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions techcrunch.com2025-08-29 00:00:00
MathGPT AI, a tutor and teaching assistant that helps students learn, expands to over 50 institutions
