Startups Weekly: Wiz’s bet paid off in an M&A-rich week

This is a good indication of the sectors that are hot among investors, from biotech and defense tech to AI, AI, and AI.

InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, starting with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan.

Momenta is one of 20 global AV partners that Uber has scooped up across its ridehail, delivery, and freight businesses. Uber says those partnerships have already generated an annualized rate of...

It's not clear who cut the cables or why.

How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness?

One investor says Koah is "building the essential monetization layer for consumer AI."

The shakeup comes as the startup was still struggling to get its test vehicle off the ground -- literally. The first flight was only in March.

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European...

This is a bad idea.

This is the EU's largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to "nullify" it.

As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.

Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.

Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.

Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for...

Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.

Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.

Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.