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Meta unveiled new versions of its AI-powered smart glasses, as well as a gesture-indicating wristband.

Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but only one will walk away with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

The British renewable energy provider said that its Kraken platform had $500 million in committed annual revenue, spurring a spinoff that could result in a massive IPO.

A list of apps that are using Apple's local models to introduce new features.

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Mastodon launches hosting and support services to generate revenue and expand the open social web.

Jar has been profitable after tax for the past two quarters.

AI models don't just hallucinate. They also "scheme," meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intensions.

Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV) share how to win Series A funding in 2026 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (Oct 27–29, SF).

Huawei's SuperPoD interconnect technology creates clusters of chips, including AI chips, to increase compute.

Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday. 

Thalha Jubair, 19, was arrested in London on Thursday and accused by U.K. and U.S. authorities of involvement in dozens of hacks, including London's transit system and the U.S. Courts.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

Notion is launching its AI agent to let you automate tasks across hundreds of pages.

The company is partnering with Flytrex to make Uber Eats deliveries later this year. Uber is also making a small investment in Flytrex.

Google now lets you share your custom AI chatbots, Gemini Gems.

"The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people," Mark Zuckerberg said.

Google says the AI assistant will be able to complete tedious tasks for users, like booking a haircut or ordering weekly groceries.

Google has been slow to adopt StopNCII's system, as its partnership with the nonprofit comes a year after Microsoft integrated the tool into Bing.

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology used to power the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.

The two-year-old sales tax startup Numeral is now valued at $350 million.

A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.

DACLab repurposed technology originally intended to capture carbon from power plants and other industrial facilities. It says the approach has been key to lowering costs.

In a statement, Rep. James Comer referenced the murder of Charlie Kirk and “other acts of politically motivated violence” as reasons why Congress has a “duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence."