timef 09/03/2025

Huawei phones, given their custom hardware and operating system, may actually be easier to hack than other brands.

Apple is debuting the iPhone 17 at its annual hardware event on September 9.

Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup […]

The AI coding tool Warp is releasing a new set of features designed to give users more oversight over command-line coding agents, with more extensive difference tracking and a clearer view of what the coding agent is doing.

Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline closes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. And with only 10 tables still available (or fewer by the time you read this), every minute matters. If you’ve been on […]

The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where founders, operators, and investors get real about what it takes to turn an idea into a business that works.

Geothermal energy startups including Fervo Energy and Sage Geosystems are signing key deals that bring their technology closer to broader commercial deployment.

The new partnership will allow students to order anything from late-night snacks to weekly groceries directly within the Fizz app in as fast as 15 minutes.

The arrangement is part of a new partnership between PayPal and the AI provider, which benefits both companies in different ways.

With the new Moments update, Netflix users now have the option to adjust where each scene clip ends.

IQM, a Finnish quantum computing company  is now a unicorn after raising over $300 million in a Series B round funding led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused on cybersecurity.

Add another two cities to the growing list where Waymo is looking to deploy its robotaxis. The company will start with manual testing, but is eyeing a commercial launch in both cities.

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that […]

An appellate court found that the Trump administration was within its rights to cancel billions of dollars in grants. The nonprofits that had their grants cancelled are expected to appeal.

Lens Live will not replace Amazon's existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens.

OpenAI is bringing on the founder of Statsig as its CTO of Applications, and making changes to other leadership roles at the company.

Even Elon Musk agrees it was too generic.

Tesla's fourth "Master Plan" lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even Elon Musk agrees it was too generic.

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves.  Crucial to that mission was Dojo, a custom-built supercomputer designed by Tesla to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can […]

AI firm Anthropic's $13 billion Series F round will be use to grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. 

WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.

Dojo was going to be Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer. Here's what Elon Musk had in mind, what happened, and what's coming next.

The Israeli spyware maker now faces the dilemma of whether to continue its relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and help fuel its mass deportations program.

MrBeast, the 27-year-old popular YouTuber, plans to launch a phone company as he diversifies his brand.