When Anthony Sardain began developing Cavela in 2023, an AI startup that helps brands automate supplier sourcing, he did not foresee that new tariffs would drive customers to become increasingly wary of manufacturing products in China. “You don’t just walk into Vietnam and build up a supply chain,” Sardain told TechCrunch. “A lot of brands…
gettyA $2.6 billion licensing and joint research deal with Eli Lilly boosted shares of South Korean biotech company ABL Bio by about 80% over the past week. The stock surge has made Lee Sang-hoon, the company’s founder and CEO, South Korea’s newest billionaire. Lee, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, is the largest shareholder of ABL Bio…
Image Credits:Monarch Tractor 10:54 AM PST · November 18, 2025 Monarch Tractor has been accused of overpromising on the autonomous capabilities of its tractors, according to a new lawsuit. Burks Tractor, a dealership located in Idaho, has sued Monarch for breach of contract and allegedly violating its warranty because the California-based startup’s tractors were “unable…
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If you pay attention to what the biggest tech companies are saying about AI demand, you’ll notice a common thread: they’re running short of compute capacity. That means the large language models underpinning AI products today need even more data centers to be trained and for inferencing, and therefore, they need more power. Against that…
In Brief Posted: 6:33 AM PST · November 17, 2025 Image Credits:Emma McIntyre/WireImage Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: The billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive of the…
A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology…
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Tesla has published the most detailed look at the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver-assistance software, just a few weeks after Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana at TechCrunch Disrupt called on companies to release more data. On a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company’s Full…





