timef 12/24/2025
- How Mill closed the deal with Amazon and Whole Foods techcrunch.com2025-12-24 23:30:00
Matt Rogers's food waste startup will soon deploy its commercial food waste bins in grocery stores throughout the U.S. Here's how Rogers thinks about preparing a startup for success.
- Apple pauses app store changes in Texas after court blocks age assurance law techcrunch.com2025-12-24 23:02:06
Apple said it will pause its plans for compliance with the new law in Texas but notes other age assurance tech remains available to developers.
- The 14 top agtech, food tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield techcrunch.com2025-12-24 23:00:00
Here is the full list of the agtech and food tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
- Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp techcrunch.com2025-12-24 22:40:34
Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app.
- How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve using AI techcrunch.com2025-12-24 22:00:00
If you’re a parent with young children, then you’ll probably hear this a lot on Christmas Eve: “Where’s Santa right now?” With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Tracker, everyone can know when Father Christmas will arrive. Plus, there are now some new AI tools to bring the holiday magic. Here’s […]
- Trump administration’s ban on foreign-made drones starts this week. You can say goodbye to new DJI models. techcrunch.com2025-12-24 05:16:04
It's the latest development in an evolving war between Chinese and American consumer tech products.
- ServiceNow to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75B techcrunch.com2025-12-24 04:40:10
The deal is expected to yield significant returns for Armis investors, including Sequoia, CapitalG, and Insight Partners.
- Zoox issues software recall over lane crossings techcrunch.com2025-12-24 03:50:09
The company has issued a software update to its autonomous driving system to fix its lane crossing behavior.
- John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies techcrunch.com2025-12-24 03:02:47
These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
- Hackers stole over $2.7B in crypto in 2025, data shows techcrunch.com2025-12-24 03:00:00
2025 was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists, the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.
- US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million techcrunch.com2025-12-24 01:14:04
Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information.
- US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million people techcrunch.com2025-12-24 01:14:04
Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information.
- This founder just landed funding for a second go at the same problem: affordable custom home design techcrunch.com2025-12-24 01:00:00
Drafted is now nearly five months old, and it's everything Atmos wasn't.
- Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green techcrunch.com2025-12-24 00:48:45
Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.
- Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green techcrunch.com2025-12-24 00:48:45
Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.
- Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp techcrunch.com2025-12-24 00:04:57
The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.
- Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech techcrunch.com2025-12-24 00:00:00
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
