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Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed… Read More »Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize
New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than… Read More »If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs
Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the U.S. government. Read More TechCrunch
[[{“value”:” Eternal-owned quick-commerce giant Blinkit has issued a warning to brands about fraudulent claims related to product listings. CEO Albinder Dhindsa said the company has… Read More »‘There are no shortcuts or partners for listing products on Blinkit’: CEO Dhindsa warns over fake listing claims
The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing granular… Read More »Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos
OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Read More TechCrunch
Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI to help farmers cut water… Read More »Instacrops will demo its water-saving, crop-boosting AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
[[{“value”:”Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new attack called CometJacking targeting Perplexity’s agentic AI browser Comet by embedding malicious prompts within a seemingly innocuous… Read More »CometJacking: One Click Can Turn Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Into a Data Thief
Recent images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are the clearest ever pictures of the jet arriving from the massive black hole in… Read More »JWST Reveals Stunning New Details About M87’s Supermassive Black Hole Jet