Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver |

6:34 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said AI chatbots aren’t a major traffic driver for the social platform despite companies…

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot |

Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps,…

Luminar is cutting jobs, losing its CFO, and warning of a cash shortage |

8:00 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Lidar-maker Luminar is warning shareholders that it will run out of cash in early 2026 and has announced…

Tim Cook says Apple is open to M&A on the AI front |

8:17 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled to investors the company is still open to acquisitions and partnerships to move…

Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images  |

8:46 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 AI search startup Perplexity has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, which gives it permission to…

Government hackers breached telecom giant Ribbon for months before getting caught |

9:45 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 U.S. telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers had access to its network for almost a year…

AWS exceeds Wall Street’s expectations as demand for cloud infra remains high |

9:59 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is on track to record its strongest year of growth…

Hackers threaten to leak data after breaching University of Pennsylvania to send mass emails |

10:30 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 On Friday morning, University of Pennsylvania alumni, students, staff, and community affiliates received several emails from hackers purporting…

Tattd gave four writers tattoos at Startup Battlefield |

On Tuesday morning at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, our senior producer Maggie Nye rolled up her jacket sleeve to show me her new tattoo: a classic,…

AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition — it buys Python notebook Marimo |

11:53 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was…