timef 09/12/2025
- Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking’ techcrunch.com2025-09-12 23:38:53
Decentralized X alternative Mastodon adds support for quote posts, but with additional controls.
- Preparing for your later-stage raise: Insider strategies from top investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-12 23:30:00
Planning your Series C and beyond? Hear from IVP’s Zeya Yang, Generation’s Lila Preston, and Diligent Robotics’ Andrea Thomaz on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 in San Francisco.
- Last day to amplify your brand: Host your Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-12 23:00:00
The application to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. Boost your brand during Disrupt Week in October. Apply now.
- How an over-the-air update made Quilt’s heat pumps more powerful techcrunch.com2025-09-12 22:42:31
Quilt's software update unlocked an additional 20% heating and cooling capacity for all of its heat pumps, including those installed in customers' homes.
- Apple delays release of iPhone Air in China due to pending approval of eSIM techcrunch.com2025-09-12 21:15:23
The eSIM-only iPhone Air's release is being delayed in China, likely due to regulatory issues around the approval of the embedded SIM.
- Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams techcrunch.com2025-09-12 21:09:44
Microsoft will escape largely unscathed from a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in billion-dollar fines for the tech giant.
- We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI techcrunch.com2025-09-12 21:00:00
The robotics startup market has matured over the last decade and the cost to produce robots has gone down significantly.
- A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law techcrunch.com2025-09-12 06:23:09
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.
- OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm techcrunch.com2025-09-12 06:18:29
OpenAI and Microsoft say they reached a non-binding agreement for the startup to transition its for profit arm into a public benefit corporation.
- Apple’s latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers techcrunch.com2025-09-12 06:00:46
Apple launched a new security feature for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air designed to reduce the effect of memory corruption bugs, and in turn make spyware and zero-days more difficult to hack into iPhones.
- The music industry is broken. OpenWav’s new app aims to change that techcrunch.com2025-09-12 05:07:23
OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists which lets them keep more of the profits.
- Tesla’s robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit techcrunch.com2025-09-12 04:20:24
Tesla can now test its autonomous vehicle technology on public streets in Nevada, but it still has steps to take if it wants to offer paid rides like in Austin, Texas.
- Elon Musk’s Boring Company suspends work on Vegas airport tunnel after ‘crushing injury’ techcrunch.com2025-09-12 03:28:23
A worker had to be rescued by the local fire department, but is reportedly stable. Dozens of Boring Company workers have been injured over the years in Vegas.
- Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities techcrunch.com2025-09-12 02:43:35
It's the latest in a long line of criticism — and action — against the company's treatment of people with physical disabilities.
- VC leaders from 01 Advisors take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to share the scaling playbook techcrunch.com2025-09-12 02:40:00
Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, and David Fischer — the operators behind Twitter and Meta’s growth — reunite at Disrupt 2025.
- FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others techcrunch.com2025-09-12 02:06:15
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
- Gmail makes it easier to track upcoming package deliveries techcrunch.com2025-09-12 00:00:00
Google also announced on that it's updating the Promotion category in Gmail to allow users to sort by "most relevant" promotion emails.
