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Cracking product-market fit: Lessons from founders and investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Finding product-market fit isn’t a milestone — it’s a messy, make-or-break journey. AtTechCrunch Disrupt 2025— taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Rajat Bhageria (Chef Robotics), Ann Bordetsky (NEA), and Murali Joshi (ICONIQ) break down how to navigate this critical phase.Register now. Rajat Bhageria: Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, scaling […]

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Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety…again

This week onEquity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Meta Connect’s AR/AI vision and neural wristband control (plus the demos that didn’t go as planned) Jack Altman’s rapid $275M fundraise and the Altman brothers’ expanding Silicon Valley

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Live demo fails, AI safety wins, and the Golden Age of Robotics

This week onEquity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Meta Connect’s AR/AI vision and neural wristband control (plus the demos that didn’t go as planned) Jack Altman’s rapid $275M fundraise and the Altman brothers’ expanding Silicon Valley

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Final hours to apply: Be the life of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 by hosting your own Side Event

This is it — today is your last chance tohost a Side EventatTechCrunch Disrupt 2025in San Francisco. Disrupt Week, taking place October 25–31, is your chance to put your brand in front of 10,000+ founders and investors, plus the Bay Area tech ecosystem. To create the conversations that shape the conference. To stand out. We’ll

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Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

British renewable energy providerOctopus Energysaid this week that it’s spinning offKraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other utilities and energy providers. An eventual Kraken IPO could be valued at $15 billion and could occur within a year,accordingto The Wall Street Journal. Kraken was actually

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How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26

Earlier this year, Apple introducedits Foundation Models frameworkduring WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company’s local AI models to power features in their applications. The company touted that with this framework, developers gain access to AI models without worrying about any inference cost. Plus, these local models have capabilities such as guided generation

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OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild 

Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said itslatest quantum chipindicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run andit went amok, calling security on people,and insisting it was human.   This week, it was OpenAI’s

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Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China

Tech giant Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to help boost compute power and allow the company to better compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia.   At a keynote at its Huawei Connect conference on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei announced new SuperPoD Interconnect technology that can link up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, together to increase compute power.  This tech seems to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed communication between AI chips.   Technology like this is critical for Huawei

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How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business

Google CloudannouncedThursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startupsLovableand Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud business more central to

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