timef 09/27/2025
- Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head Lisa Monaco techcrunch.com2025-09-27 23:24:11
“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.
- How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI techcrunch.com2025-09-27 22:00:00
South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.
- Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst techcrunch.com2025-09-27 14:45:54
Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."
- Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-27 04:00:00
Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.
- What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines? techcrunch.com2025-09-27 03:40:24
This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.
- Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation techcrunch.com2025-09-27 03:30:52
Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it's profitable.
- Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B techcrunch.com2025-09-27 03:25:52
The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
- ‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg techcrunch.com2025-09-27 03:25:48
Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."
- YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary techcrunch.com2025-09-27 03:02:02
YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.
- As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help techcrunch.com2025-09-27 02:02:03
We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.
- More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal techcrunch.com2025-09-27 01:45:00
The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left.
- Everyone’s still throwing billions at AI data centers techcrunch.com2025-09-27 01:30:00
From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by […]
- TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-09-27 00:09:41
Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
- Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found spilling online after security lapse techcrunch.com2025-09-26 23:50:00
Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records, and the data was eventually secured. Indian fintech company NuPay took responsibility for the "configuration" error.
