Category: Tech Crunch

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

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.

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.”

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.

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 is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Trump’s executive order essentially bars the attorney general or Department of Justice from enforcing that law for 120 days while the divestiture plan presented to the president is executed.

As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple’s local AI models.