‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind

Rodatherm Energy emerged from stealth with $38 million in Series A funding. It plans to build a closed-loop geothermal power plant that uses refrigerants to move heat to the surface.

Investors continue to reward Alphabet's stock after a judge declined to break up Google earlier this month.

Divergent Technologies' new round will help the company expand its manufacturing footprint across the U.S.

The “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is intended to allow any retail investor to make money on startups, but the details are scant.

We asked YC-focused investors to name the startups from the Summer 2025 batch that generated the most interest.

Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breach, without saying how many were affected. 

Does Silicon Valley still give founders an edge? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (Oct 27–29, SF), Anh-Tho Chuong (Lago), David Hall (Revolution), and Tawni Nazario-Cranz (SignalFire) debate whether...

Unlike traditional alarm clocks that can be silenced with a simple tap, Awake is intended to actively engage users' brains to ensure they fully wake up.

The launch comes as the company rolled out its fifth-generation Snap Spectacles for developers last year and plans to launch a consumer version sometime in 2026.

Other features include a call screening assistant, a new gaming and preview app, in-app translation across the system, and updates to Genmoji and Image Playground apps.

Nirav Tolia (Nextdoor), Jane Alexander (CapitalG), and Vanessa Larco (Premise, NEA) join TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (October 27–29, SF) to share strategies for building resilient companies and...

OpenAI's AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.

China is investigating Nvidia's 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies as trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up.

The Israeli government ordered the seizure of 187 wallets it said belong to the IRGC, which have over time received $1.5 billion in crypto, according to a blockchain analysis firm.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and we’re looking for motivated, curious, and energetic volunteers to help make it all happen.

The new PayPal Links allow customers to either request or make a payment to another person by selecting the link option, inputting the amount, and then copying the link into a conversation.

Back by overwhelming demand, we’ve added 10 more exhibit tables to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and this will be the final release before they sell out.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Emergence Capital general partner Santi Subotovsky will join the Going Public Stage at Disrupt 2025 in a session called "What Comes After Breakout Success?" Join 10,000+...

The "framework" deal with China is "between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon," CNBC quoted Bessent as saying on the sidelines of a meeting between the two...

On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.