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Musk said he picked the date so he “could say I was just kidding” if it changes again. He had spent months teasing a reveal by the end of this year…

Apple is turning to Google’s technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant…

Eric Bach, who was once the director of engineering at Tesla, is out amid a larger executive shake-up at the company…

While Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, argues that startups should be thinking harder about social media virality, he also admits that brand awareness alone won’t lead to sustained growth. “I can’t say if it’s a mistake, but maybe we launched too early,” Lee said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 last week. “The whole idea…

Beta Technologies’ public market debut is a capstone to founder and CEO Kyle Clark’s untraditional approach to building an aviation company…

Amazon won’t allow agents on its site that don’t identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased…

Image Credits:Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg / Getty Images 1:01 PM PDT · November 1, 2025 Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X. While both men were founders at OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, they have subsequently sparred across social media, court filings, and corporate blog posts.…

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, pixelated cursor arrow. TechCrunch’s Becca Szkutak got a matching cursor, while Theresa Loconsolo got a smiling moon. I guessed that at some point during all the Disrupt hoopla, Maggie and…

Thanks to everyone who made this year’s San Francisco event what it was — and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn’t make it? The images below offer a glimpse into what you missed. Until next year. Vinod Khosla, telling attendees…

5:58 PM PDT · October 29, 2025 Cluely’s Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral. “Generally, if you’re not in deep tech, then you need to low-key deep focus on distribution,” Lee told the crowd at Disrupt 2025. But he also made it clear…