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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone from the founders to their own data suppliers to tell you what they're actually building.

21 Sep 2026 1:59 am
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

21 Sep 2026 12:26 am
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

20 Sep 2026 11:30 pm
A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline

Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. []

20 Sep 2026 8:30 pm
6 days left to get ahead at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then.

20 Sep 2026 7:30 pm