OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, even though it is currently invite-only and limited to users in the United States and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads and was ranked as…
The space economy is no longer just about rockets and satellites. It is now about building resilient infrastructure, deploying autonomous systems, and creating entirely new models for how we operate and defend assets off-Earth. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place…
A notorious, predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims. The group is threatening to release approximately one billion records stolen from companies that store customer data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. This loosely organized…
Silicon Valley is known for comfortable offices with gleaming meeting rooms and on-site baristas. So when early HappyRobot engineer Ari Polakof decided to strike out and start his own company, he did not exactly expect to wind up tapping on…
The Founder and Investor bundle sale for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is now live, but it ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. This is your only opportunity this year to secure group bundle savings on Founder Passes and an even larger…
Apple has removed ICEBlock and other applications from its App Store that allowed users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This action followed pressure from the Trump administration. The ICEBlock application, which went viral earlier…
Zehra Naqvi is 26 years old. She grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s, an era defined by Tumblr and Twitter. She would stay up all night breaking down Marvel movie release dates or analyzing the movements…
When Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, his immediate destination was the Mojave desert. He was drawn to a company called Scaled Composites, which had spent years developing experimental aircraft in that…
While AI coding startups like Cursor raise significant funding after barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a three billion dollar valuation has been anything but swift. For CEO Amjad Masad, who has been building tools to democratize programming…
Amazon will restart its drone delivery service in Arizona beginning Friday. This decision comes as two federal agencies continue to investigate a crash that occurred earlier this week. The company had suspended operations in the West Valley of the Phoenix…
