Topic: techcrunch disrupt
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Host a Side Event at Disrupt 2025: Apply Now
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will take place from October 27–29 in San Francisco, attracting over 10,000 attendees including founders, investors, and tech leaders. Side Events, which are unofficial meetups like workshops and dinners, are a key part of the experience and offer promotional support to he...
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Thomas Middleditch Surprises Crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Thomas Middleditch, known for his role in "Silicon Valley," made a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, presenting for the Australian startup Othelia during the pitch showcase. He detailed Othelia's mission to create a Cursor-like platform for storytellers, adding humor and connecting ...
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Waymo Co-CEO Reveals Autonomous Vehicle Truths at Disrupt 2025
The journey to fully autonomous vehicles is complex, with Waymo's co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana set to discuss real-world challenges like safety, public trust, and regulations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Mawakana will provide an honest assessment of progress and hurdles in scaling autonomous technology...
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Humanoids, AVs & Beyond: AI Hardware's Future at Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco will host over 10,000 attendees to explore AI hardware advancements, featuring leaders from Waabi and Apptronik. The session will focus on integrating AI into physical systems like autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots, addressing challenges such as ener...
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Astro Teller to Headline TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 This October
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will feature Astro Teller, leader of Alphabet's X, and will be held from October 27-29 in San Francisco. Teller has led transformative projects like Waymo and Loon, emphasizing the importance of embracing failure to drive innovation. His diverse expertise in entrepreneursh...
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Don't Miss These AI Sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt, Backed by JetBrains
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, held from October 27–29 in San Francisco, will focus on transformative technologies with a special emphasis on artificial intelligence. A key session on October 27 will feature investors and founders discussing the AI Disruptors 60 list and how startups are shaping AI's f...
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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to Speak at Disrupt 2025
Mayor Daniel Lurie will deliver a keynote at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, symbolizing a significant homecoming for San Francisco's tech ecosystem and a push to reintegrate technology into the city's identity. His participation signals a reconciliation between City Hall and the tech community, address...
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Glīd Wins Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Glīd won TechCrunch Disrupt 2025's Startup Battlefield, earning the title and a $100,000 prize for its innovative logistics solutions. The company developed the GliderM, a hybrid-electric vehicle that streamlines container transfers from ships to trains, cutting costs and reducing reliance on tra...
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Mirror's Founder Unveils 'Board,' a New Connected Gaming Screen
Brynn Putnam, founder of Mirror, has launched Board, a gaming console that combines physical board games with digital features, announced at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Board features a 24-inch touch-sensitive screen that recognizes physical game pieces, supports 4–6 players, and retails for $500 wi...
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Unlisted Pre-Matches Home Sellers With Buyers Before Listing
Unlisted is a real estate platform that connects potential buyers with homeowners before properties are officially listed for sale, addressing a gap in the market. The platform uses public records to create home profiles and allows buyers to join waitlists, signaling interest directly to homeowne...
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Glīd Wins Startup Battlefield 2025 With Smarter Logistics Solutions
Glīd won Startup Battlefield 2025 by introducing innovative logistics infrastructure to simplify container shipments, as presented by CEO Kevin Damoa. The company's solution was inspired by Damoa's military experience with logistical bottlenecks and addresses inefficiencies through integrated har...
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geCKo Materials Unveils 4 New Products at TechCrunch Disrupt
geCKo Materials introduced four new commercial applications of its bio-inspired dry adhesive technology, including tools for semiconductor handling and robotic grippers, which function without residue, electricity, or suction. The adhesive has attracted major partners like Ford, NASA, and PG&E, w...
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Sell Your Unused Electricity: COI Energy's Breakthrough at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Large enterprises pay for unused electricity capacity due to an outdated purchasing model, which COI Energy addresses by creating a marketplace where businesses can monetize their surplus energy allotments. Founded by SaLisa Berrien, the company uses patented technology and data analysis to predi...
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Hance demos tiny AI audio software at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Hance is a Norwegian startup developing compact, AI-powered audio processing software that enhances communication in high-stakes environments like Formula One by reducing noise and improving clarity in real-time. The company's key innovation is compressing its models to just 242 kB, enabling on-d...
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AI vs. Human Hustle: The Future of Startup Ops at Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will feature a panel discussing how startups are using AI agents as initial employees to handle roles like sales and customer support, challenging traditional scaling methods. The panel includes founders and experts who will share practical insights on balancing human and ...
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Miraqules to Unveil Blood-Clotting Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Miraqules will debut its revolutionary blood-clotting nanotechnology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, a powder that mimics natural clotting proteins to stop bleeding in one to two minutes, promising to transform emergency medical responses. The innovation originated from an accidental discovery by CEO...
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Waabi and Volvo Launch New Self-Driving Truck
Volvo and Waabi have unveiled the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck, integrating Waabi's software with Volvo's platform to enable scalable driverless freight transport on various roads. Waabi aims to be the first to commercialize self-driving trucks without any human safety driver, with current operatio...
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Find Your Way Without GPS: Skyline Nav AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Skyline Nav AI is developing a vision-based navigation system called Pathfinder that uses AI to analyze surroundings and match them against a database, providing real-time guidance without relying on GPS signals. The technology is critical for national security as a countermeasure against GPS jam...
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Okosix Debuts Biodegradable Plastic at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
The healthcare industry produces massive plastic waste, with U.S. facilities discarding over 2,800 tons of single-use plastics daily, inspiring entrepreneur Eddie Yu to seek sustainable solutions. Okosix, Yu's startup, has developed a cost-effective, high-performing biodegradable polymer from bio...
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Waymo's NYC Expansion & Nvidia's Nuro Investment: TechCrunch Mobility
Autonomous vehicle advancements and significant investments are shaping the industry, with updates from companies like Waymo, Nuro, and emerging startups. Key developments include major acquisitions and funding rounds, such as Serve Robotics acquiring Vayu Robotics and Nuro securing $203 million ...
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Get Paid to Chat: Rent a Cyber Friend at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Francesco Vitali initially doubted the idea of paying for conversation but trusted his partner's vision, leading to the creation of Rent a Cyber Friend, a video chat platform where users pay per minute for verified companions or specialized discussions. The platform has grown organically to three...
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Tesla Issues Safety Report After Waymo CEO's Data Push
Tesla has released new safety data showing its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software in North America experiences a major collision every 5 million miles and a minor one every 1.5 million miles, significantly outperforming human drivers. This disclosure follows industry calls for transparency, ...
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Tristan Thompson & World Mobile Launch Uplift Network
NBA champion Tristan Thompson has partnered with World Mobile to launch Uplift, a community-owned mobile network offering unlimited data plans starting at $9.99 per month to enhance connectivity affordability. Uplift utilizes blockchain and a decentralized infrastructure (DePIN), enabling local A...
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ZoraSafe App to Shield Seniors Online at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
ZoraSafe is a cybersecurity app designed for seniors to protect them from online threats and educate them through gamified learning, set to debut at TechCrunch Disrupt. The app features QR code scanning, analysis of suspicious messages, and a community-driven database for reporting scams to prote...
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OpenAI Acquires Xcode Assistant Alex Codes Team
The team behind Alex Codes, a tool that integrated AI into Apple's Xcode, is joining OpenAI's Codex division in a strategic acqui-hire. The move follows Apple's update allowing external AI model integration in Xcode, which reduced the need for third-party tools like Alex Codes. Alex Codes will co...
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Think Like a YC Partner? This Game Tests Your Skills
YC Arena's YC Partner Simulator is an interactive game where players evaluate real startup pitches and compare their accept/reject decisions with Y Combinator's actual choices, highlighting the difficulty of predicting success. The game reveals the subjective and often luck-influenced nature of s...
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How to Attract Top Talent to Your Startup Without a Big Budget
Startups can compete for talent by focusing on generous equity, clear accountability, and flexible compensation structures rather than matching large tech salaries. Offering substantial equity and setting transparent performance goals with proper vesting schedules attract dedicated employees and ...
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Elad Gil: The AI Markets With Winners vs. Wide-Open Opportunities
Elad Gil describes the AI sector as having both established leaders in some markets and wide-open opportunities in others, highlighting its unpredictability despite his extensive investment experience. He identifies foundational models, AI-assisted coding, and medical transcription as areas with ...
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Trump Praises Tech CEOs for Halting Federal Troop Surge in San Francisco
President Trump canceled a planned National Guard surge in San Francisco after direct appeals from tech executives like Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, highlighting corporate influence on policy. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie confirmed the deployment was scheduled and th...
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ÄIO Makes Edible Fat From Sawdust and Farm Waste
ÄIO, an Estonian startup, produces edible fats from agricultural byproducts like sawdust and farm waste using a unique yeast strain that converts sugars into fats instead of carbon dioxide or alcohol. The resulting fats are versatile, resembling chicken fat in solid form or vegetable oils like ca...
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Ethan Thornton: Mach Industries' AI Vision at Disrupt 2025
Mach Industries is introducing startup agility and advanced AI into the defense sector, challenging traditional industry norms and emphasizing speed and autonomy in high-risk environments. The company, founded by Ethan Thornton, focuses on developing decentralized defense systems and leverages AI...
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Amazon-Backed AI Startup Creates Orson Welles Fan Fiction
An AI startup, Fable, backed by Amazon's Alexa Fund, is using generative technology to reconstruct the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles' 1942 film *The Magnificent Ambersons*, raising both technical and ethical questions. The project has not secured rights from the Welles estate, drawing criticism...
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Ex-Scale AI CTO Launches AI Agent to Solve Big Data's Biggest Problem
Isotopes AI launched with a $20 million seed investment, introducing Aidnn, an AI agent that allows business users to interact with data using natural language queries from various sources. The company was co-founded by Arun Murthy, a big data veteran from Hadoop and Hortonworks, who identified t...
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TED Leader's $300M Fund to Bridge Climate Tech's 'Valley of Death'
The "valley of death" is a major funding challenge for climate tech startups, especially hardware-focused ones requiring large capital for first-of-a-kind facilities. The All Aboard Coalition, led by Chris Anderson, aims to raise $300 million to provide equity investments and encourage co-investm...
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AWS Simplifies Custom LLM Creation with New Features
AWS has introduced new serverless tools in SageMaker and Bedrock to simplify the creation and fine-tuning of custom large language models, reducing infrastructure management. These features enable industry-specific customization, such as in healthcare, and support models like Amazon Nova and open...
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Mastering Product-Market Fit for AI Startups
AI startups require a new approach to measuring product-market fit due to the rapid pace of AI development, moving beyond traditional tech strategies. Key indicators of success include the transition of AI spending from experimental budgets to core operational funds and strong user engagement met...
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Tesla Pushes Roadster 2 Reveal to April Fools' Day
Tesla will unveil its second-generation Roadster on April 1, 2026, nearly nine years after its initial announcement, with CEO Elon Musk humorously noting the date offers "some deniability" for potential delays. The production version has been postponed from a late 2024 reveal and will differ sign...
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Vinod Khosla: US Should Take 10% Stake in Firms to Cushion AGI Impact
Vinod Khosla proposes the U.S. government acquire a 10% stake in every public corporation to create a national fund for wealth redistribution, addressing economic upheaval from AGI. He argues this controversial measure is necessary to share AI's wealth broadly and maintain social stability, as AG...
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OpenAI Restructures Team Behind ChatGPT's Personality
OpenAI is restructuring its Model Behavior team by integrating it into the broader Post Training team to better align model development with user experience design. The team's founding leader, Joanne Jang, is transitioning to establish OAI Labs, a research unit focused on prototyping innovative i...
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Advanced Geothermal Startups Are Heating Up
Advanced geothermal energy is gaining significant investment and bipartisan support for its ability to provide reliable, clean power without intermittency issues. Fervo Energy, in partnership with Baker Hughes, is developing a project in Utah using advanced drilling to produce 300 megawatts of co...
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Mark Cuban's Crusade Against the $5 Trillion Healthcare Industry
Mark Cuban criticizes the U.S. healthcare system for its opaque pricing and lack of transparency, launching Cost Plus Drugs to offer medications at a clear markup over cost. His company uses a straightforward pricing model—cost plus 15%, a $5 fee, and shipping—to drastically reduce prices and byp...
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Stack Overflow Pivots to Become an AI Data Provider
Stack Overflow is pivoting from a public developer community to an enterprise AI data provider, focusing on its Stack Overflow Internal product to structure its knowledge for corporate AI agents. The platform now includes a reliability score for answers and rich metadata, enabling AI systems to a...
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Henrik Fisker Shut Down Nonprofit After EV Startup Bankruptcy
Henrik and Geeta Fisker dissolved their private charitable foundation in December 2024, which had been established in 2021 to support innovation in healthcare, education, sustainability, and mobility. The foundation distributed approximately $100,000 in grants over three years, struggling due to ...
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Google Vids Adds AI Avatars and Launches Consumer Version
Google Vids has introduced AI avatars and automated transcript trimming, along with a free consumer version, to compete in the AI-assisted video creation market. The platform offers a template library and stock media for casual users, while business users gain access to synthetic avatar technolog...
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Google's Deepest AI Agent Debuts Amid OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Launch
Google has launched an upgraded Gemini Deep Research agent, built on Gemini 3 Pro, designed for complex analysis and integration into third-party apps and services like Google Search and Finance via a new API. A key focus is on improving factual accuracy to minimize AI "hallucinations" during mul...
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Customize Your AI Podcast's Tone with Google's NotebookLM
Google's NotebookLM now allows users to customize the tone and format of AI-generated Audio Overviews, offering four distinct styles including Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate for personalized listening. The platform has introduced new AI voices for audio summaries and expanded accessibilit...
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Warp's New AI Coding Tools Supercharge Diff Tracking
Warp Code introduces AI coding tools that offer real-time diff tracking and a transparent workflow, making AI-assisted coding feel like collaborative pair programming. The system allows developers to see, comment on, and adjust code changes in real time, with features like manual editing and an i...
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Microsoft HQ Lockdown: Activists Occupy Brad Smith's Office
Activists occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith's office, protesting the company's cloud contracts with Israel and leading to a campus lockdown and arrests. Smith criticized the protest method, emphasizing Microsoft's preference for internal dialogue over confrontational demonstrations regardin...
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Grand Theft Auto Online DLC Unleashes Chaotic 'KnoWay' Robotaxis
The new GTA Online DLC introduces a chaotic fictional robotaxi service called "KnoWay," which causes mayhem in Los Santos and visually resembles real-world Waymo vehicles. The game's storyline satirizes tech anxieties, featuring rogue AI and a mission to stop a mass surveillance network, mirrorin...
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OpenAI Launches AI Hiring Platform to Challenge LinkedIn
OpenAI is launching an AI-powered hiring platform by mid-2026 to connect businesses and job seekers, potentially competing with established networks like LinkedIn. The company is also developing an AI certification program through its OpenAI Academy, aiming to certify 10 million Americans by 2030...
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