timef 09/06/2025
- Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises techcrunch.com2025-09-06 22:02:36
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
- OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality techcrunch.com2025-09-06 07:19:12
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.
- Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers techcrunch.com2025-09-06 04:59:21
Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
- Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down techcrunch.com2025-09-06 03:27:47
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
- Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’ techcrunch.com2025-09-06 03:21:45
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.
- Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment techcrunch.com2025-09-06 03:09:12
Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.
- Cutting through the equity noise: Don’t miss this powerhouse panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-06 02:30:00
Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.
- A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-06 02:26:00
From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.
- Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more techcrunch.com2025-09-06 01:30:00
Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and jump into an experience right from a video.
- Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing techcrunch.com2025-09-06 01:00:46
Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk's drone company.
- Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters techcrunch.com2025-09-06 00:56:38
Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters.
- Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries techcrunch.com2025-09-06 00:37:48
The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron's troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.
- X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat. You probably shouldn’t trust it yet. techcrunch.com2025-09-06 00:04:03
X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.
