Inside the shift at Disrupt: Building community and scaling in the AI era

A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.

DACLab repurposed technology originally intended to capture carbon from power plants and other industrial facilities. It says the approach has been key to lowering costs.

PayPal and Google are teaming up on agentic commerce.

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, gaming platform Steam, Twitch, and Reddit testify on October 8th about online radicalization.

Nvidia has agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop "multiple generations" of data center and PC products. Nvidia will buy Intel stock.

Chris Britt brings Chime’s playbook to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in October. Whether you’re building in fintech or another fast-moving sector, this is a rare opportunity to hear firsthand how to...

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf joins Disrupt 2025 to share how open science and moonshot projects are shaping the future of AI. October 27–29, Moscone West, San Francisco.

Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet by buying DX so it can offer a developer productivity tool.

EV Realty wants to create a new class of real estate investment by building charging hubs on parcels near warehouses with power to spare.

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. 

Bumble BFF's revamped app introduces a new groups feature to help users connect with new friends beyond one-on-one matching.

Indian users turning Google’s Nano Banana into a viral trend engine, from retro AI portraits to figurine-style selfies.

Meta launches Hyperscape into beta, allowing users to turn real world spaces into digital spaces for VR.

Meta showed off its newest AI-powered smart glasses, which have a display and are controlled by a wristband, at Meta Connect 2025.

The new smart glasses are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.

The fresh raise comes in above the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that it was raising.

Although StubHub's shares fell 6% in first day of trading, the IPO is testament to the co-founder's 25-year effort.

Irregular, the AI security startup, now has a valuation of $450 million, a source close to the deal told TechCrunch.

Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen said Wednesday that the company is "working on" combining the electronic and manual door releases after owners have reported getting trapped.

The two-year-old startup raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins.