TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is here. If you are still deciding whether to attend in person, you can explore the full schedule of speakers, networking events, workshops, and after-parties. There is still time to get a last-minute ticket, and we are…
General Motors is laying off thousands of workers across multiple electric vehicle and battery plants in the United States. According to multiple news outlets, around 1,200 employees at the company’s electric vehicle factory in Detroit, Michigan, are being placed on…
Microsoft Azure is experiencing a significant outage this Wednesday. The problems began around noon Eastern Time. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page. According to the company, they suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered the problem.…
Waymo and Zoox robotaxis are a regular sight on San Francisco streets. Soon Uber, through a partnership with Lucid and Nuro, will descend on the city as well. This is exactly how San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie likes it. He…
Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie does not believe AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS companies. He shared this perspective on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference. Instead, he sees a future combining SaaS and agents in a hybrid…
Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity giant Apollo. Bending Spoons says it has secured a 2.8 billion dollar debt…
Google announced this week that it is working with NextEra Energy to revive a nuclear power plant in Iowa that closed in 2020. NextEra has been searching for a partner to reopen the reactor for the past year and found…
Peter Williams, the former general manager at defense contractor L3Harris, has pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker that buys cyber tools. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the news on Wednesday. The material, stolen over a…
Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They are bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. Now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed to never stop talking,…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Asia this week on a mission that extended beyond diplomacy to include signing agreements poised to influence the next phase of the global technology competition. The United States formalized Technology Prosperity Deals with Japan…
