12:00 PM PDT · October 2, 2025 Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier…
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Department of Energy cancels $7.5B of clean energy projects in mostly blue states |
The Department of Energy said Wednesday night it was canceling 321 awards worth $7.56 billion that were largely focused on clean energy. The agency hasn’t…
Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona |
4:30 PM PDT · October 2, 2025 Amazon will restart its drone delivery service in Arizona beginning Friday as two federal agencies continue to investigate…
After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it? |
While AI coding startups like Cursor close brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything…
Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store |
5:53 AM PDT · October 3, 2025 Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sightings…
A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes |
Zehra Naqvi, 26, grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s. This was the era of Tumblr and Twitter. She would stay up…
Exclusive: New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million |
When Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, there was one place he wanted to go next: the…
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…