Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases |

A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who…

Disrupt 2025 founder and investor bundle sale ends tonight |

7:00 AM PDT · October 3, 2025 The Founder and Investor bundle sale for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is live — but only until tonight at…

Flai is the latest startup bringing AI to car dealerships |

Silicon Valley is full of comfortable offices with gleaming meeting rooms and on-site baristas. So when early HappyRobot engineer Ari Polakof decided to strike out…

Bridgit Mendler, Even Rogers, and Max Hoat join the Space Stage at Disrupt 2025 |

The space economy isn’t just about rockets and satellites anymore — it’s about building resilient infrastructure, deploying autonomous systems, and creating entirely new models for…

Leaked doc reveals the chaotic politics behind Trump Energy Department cuts |

This week, the Department of Energy canceled nearly $8 billion worth of awards — a move touted by the Trump administration as an effort to…

OpenAI's Sora soars to No. 1 on Apple's US App Store |

OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at…

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks |

It’s no secret that vibe coding — using AI-powered coding tools to build apps and websites via natural language prompts — is exploding in popularity.…

This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund for Y Combinator startups |

Venture capital is filled with investors who claim they’ve got inside access to the next big thing. Meanwhile, Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built…

OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system |

ChatGPT usersin the U.S. can now makeEtsy and soon Shopifypurchases within conversations, marking a next step toward the future of online shopping— bothforconsumers andthe platforms…

DeepSeek releases 'sparse attention' model that cuts API costs in half |

Oct 2, 2025 By Stephanie Simone Databricks announced it is acquiring Mooncake Labs to accelerate its vision of a Lakebase—a new category of OLTP database…