Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker |

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,”…

GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers |

General Motors is laying off thousands of workers across multiple electric vehicle and battery plants in the U.S., according to multiple outlets. Around 1,200 employees…

San Francisco mayor: 'We should be the testbed for emerging tech' |

It’s a marketer’s dream: Hosting a sold-out event for 10k attendees. That brands are begging to be a part of. Oh, and that was headlined…

Box CEO Aaron Levie on how AI is changing the enterprise SaaS landscape |

Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie doesn’t think AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies. Instead, he believes that the more likely future is…

2024's Startup Battlefield runner-up geCKo Materials reveals four new products at Disrupt |

1:06 PM PDT · October 29, 2025 The 2024 runner-up in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, geCKo Materials, returned to the stage at this year’s…

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding |

3:44 PM PDT · October 29, 2025 The rise of agentic coding tools has been a sea change for software engineers across the industry —…

And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd |

4:15 PM PDT · October 29, 2025 For three days this week, 20 startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Each was…

YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff |

YouTube is conducting a “voluntary exit program” with severance for U.S.-based employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The news was first reported by…

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era |

“The dead internet theory is real,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told Digg founder Kevin Rose, referring to the idea that much of the internet isn’t…

NBA champion Tristan Thompson and World Mobile launch community-owned network Uplift |

NBA champion Tristan Thompson announced at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that he’s partnering with global telecom company World Mobile to launch a community-owned mobile network called…