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Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

Tesla challenges $243 million verdict in Autopilot death trial

WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

AI or not, Will Smith’s crowd video is fresh cringe

US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety test rival models

Chipolo, an AirTag rival, debuts rechargeable trackers with a six-month battery life

The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

Why the U.S. government is not the savior Intel needs

Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled

Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC

Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia’s largest startup competition in history sends four winners to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield

Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

NotebookLM’s Video Overview feature now supports 80 languages

Pintarnya raises $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia

Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is probably the biggest movie in theaters

TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo’s Big Apple score and Nvidia backs Nuro

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire

TikTok denies India comeback after reports of website going live

The next Starship flight will test much more than hardware

Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit

Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness

Labubu could make $1 billion this year

Google launches its own ‘MagSafe’ with PixelSnap

Anthropic bundles Claude Code into enterprise plans

Discover how developer tools are shifting fast with Lauri Moore and David Cramer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

SoftBank makes $2B investment in Intel

Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers

X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue

Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims

Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

AI-powered stuffed animals are coming for your kids

Les Amis, the European app helping women form friendships, launches in New York

TikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more

Kyte, which billed itself as the ‘best competitor to Hertz,’ shuts down

Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape. Here’s who wins.

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

Norway spy chief blames Russian hackers for hijacking dam

Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down

Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request

India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato

Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: report

Indian fintech Paytm wins a major regulatory battle days after key investor exit

Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

Poshmark CEO and founder to step down

How founders are ditching VC norms and finding capital on their own terms at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

The computer science dream has become a nightmare

Stanford sticks with legacy admissions

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

Former Googlers’ AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click

Don’t let your competitor steal the brand spotlight — secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Rocket Lab eyes big defense opportunities with new acquisition

The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

IPO hopeful Brex scored major win to sell in the EU, plans UK expansion

How to actually raise a seed round: Actionable advice from top investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

Linda Yaccarino joins health tech platform eMed as CEO after leaving X

Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

Foxconn sells former GM factory to mystery buyer after failing to make EVs

Tesla asks shareholders to approve $29B comp package for Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you

The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny

Venture firm CRV raises $750M, downsizing after returning capital to investors

Kleiner Perkins is having a very good week

A backlog at the Commerce Dept. is reportedly stalling Nvidia’s H20 chip licenses

Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $200M punitive damages