- October 3, 2025
Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona
Amazon will restart its drone delivery service in Arizona beginning Friday as two federal agencies continue to investigate a crash that occurred earlier this week.
U.S. government takes stake in Canadian lithium miner and its Nevada mining project
The U.S. Department of Energy has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part
The AI services transformation may be harder than VCs think
Venture capitalists have convinced themselves they’ve found the next big investing edge: using AI to wring software-like margins out of traditionally labor-intensive services businesses. The
Discover how developer tools are shifting fast at Disrupt 2025
The idea of hiring your “first critical engineer” is getting a serious reality check at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West.
Y Combinator launches “Early Decision” for students who want to graduate first, build later
For decades, Silicon Valley has valorized the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build companies and
Mirror founder Brynn Putnam to unveil her new startup at Disrupt 2025
Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur who turned
White House offers more details about potential TikTok deal
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News today and said that an agreement has been reached — but not signed — that
OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild
Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple
Al Gore on China’s climate rise: ‘I would not have seen this coming’
Twenty-five years ago, Al Gore was in the final stretch of his U.S. presidential campaign, just weeks away from an election that would ultimately slip
OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says we’re in an AI bubble (but that’s okay)
Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was asked in a recent interview with The Verge whether he agreed
