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Benchmark says the Valleys rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.

The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

The executives argued that advertising isnt the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropics risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Bluesky is bringing social vibe coding to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

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Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.

SK Hynixs Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming AI & Autonomy Day event in December.

The funding comes as Ramp's annualized revenue crosses $2B, and its customer count reaches 85,000.

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Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.

The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.

Its time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant postwhether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumorcan quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the storm tracker for the internet, []

Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.

Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risks.

With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.

Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.

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Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.

The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.

Netflix said most of the cuts would affect its product, tech, legal, and human resources departments.

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NTangible is building an analytics platform for collegiate sports organizations and other clubs to measure an athlete's clutch factor.

Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.

U.S. authorities warn that sanctioned hackers are increasingly targeting Americans to act as facilitators between breached U.S. companies and Pyongyang.

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.

Fusion power startup Cambridge Heavy Industries is building a small, laser-powered fusion device to fuel the coming wave of fusion power plants.

Fusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.

The San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.

Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, Your Algorithm, on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool allows Facebook users to influence the content they see in []

Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.