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Bret Taylor, Openai's board chair and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was asked in a recent interview with The Verge if he agreed to Openai CEO Sam Altman's declaration that “someone will lose an incredible amount of money in AI.” Taylor reflected Altman's feelings and suggested that we were in fact in the AI bubble, but like Altman, he wasn't too worried about it. “I think it's true that AI will transform the economy. I think it will create a huge amount of economic value in the future, like the internet,” Taylor said. “I think we're in a bubble.…
President Donald Trump rebutted immigrants during last year's presidential election, pledging an unprecedented number of deportations. According to CNN, in his first eight months, the promises have changed to figures that include around 350,000 deportations, immigration and customs enforcement (about 200,000), customs and border protection (over 132,000), and almost 18,000 self-reports. ICE is on the centre stage with Trump's deportation campaign, raiding homes, workplaces and parks in search of undocumented immigrants. To support that effort, ICE is at willing to use several technologies that allow individuals and communities to be identified and monitored. Below is a summary of some of…
TechCrunch will block Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, 2025. If you are aiming for a big fundraising goal, you will be leaning on this session on October 29th at Builders Stage. The three powerhouse voices in ventures and AI-driven innovations share what they really need to close out the major round long before they're in the room with investors. Why this session is important Raising late capital is beyond achieving revenue targets. It involves telling the right stories, tracking the right metrics, and building complex relationships over time. Expect keen insights, honest reflections and practical frameworks that…
Large AI labs like Openai and Google Deepmind cut connections with Scale AI after Meta invested $14 billion in data vendors and hired CEOs. However, AI Labs still need data. It leaves an opening for other startups that can provide. The major players and factors in the AI data market are changing. Mercor, an AI employment platform that sells data services to AI Labs recently, may be one of the biggest benefactors of this shift. Today, in Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony HA, and I (Max Zeff) are digging deeper into the changes in the AI data market. Co-founded less than…
The countdown is as follows: The application hosting side events at TechCrunchSrupt2025 will close tonight at 11:59pm. If you're looking at ways to amplify your brand at this week's tech epicenter, now is the time to lock it up. Your side event is a dinner where everyone is still talking, a panel that triggers a deal, or a happy hour where you start a new collaboration. Over 10,000 attendees in San Francisco will not be taking place in addition to the global spotlight of TechCrunch promotions. It resonates. Image credit: Slava Blazer Photography Today's deadline is the final The application…
When Seth Winterroth quit his job at GE Ventures and helped launch Eclipse Ventures in 2015, Robotics fell into his mind. More specifically, the number of early-stage robotics startups that struggled to launch due to lack of interest. “These are teams that just finished postdocs at Waterloo, or CMU, or MIT, and started robotics companies. What we've heard continuously from startups is, “Hey, we're really struggling to develop venture capital in our facility,” Winter told TechCrunch. “At that time, most venture capitalists in Silicon Valley went into the application layer of a very mature application layer or some very mature…
Buried in a sea of flashy novelties unveiled by Apple this week, Tech Giant has also revealed new security technologies for the latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Devices. According to Apple, the new security technology was specially created to combat the types of vulnerabilities that dependent on surveillance vendors most. This feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs. This is some of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by manufacturers of telephone law devices used by SPYware developers and law enforcement agencies. “The known merctic spyware chains used against iOS share…
TechCrunch's 2025 brings three people who helped shape the modern internet to builders. On October 28th, Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, and David Fischer (now 01 Advisors) will seek exclusive fireside chats about what they need to build, expand and fund startups amid today's ever-changing landscape. Before supporting breakout companies like Tipalti and Spoton, he was the operator behind some of the most iconic high-tech companies. David Fischer – Former CRO of Meta, Fischer has expanded annual revenues from under $1 billion to over $100 billion, connecting 200 million companies with customers around the world. Previously, he built Google's initial sales…
According to the French government, Apple has notified many individuals that their devices are being targeted in spyware campaigns. France's National Cybersecurity Response Force said Thursday it was aware that on September 3, Apple sent new notifications to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The Cybersecurity unit said receiving threat notifications means that at least one of the devices linked to a customer's iCloud account is “targeted and potentially damaged.” It is unknown how many individuals, including France, received the September 3rd threat notification when spyware was used, and when the intrusion began. An Apple spokesman did…
Children are marking the UK's cybersecurity field, but not in the way their parents want it. According to the National Intelligence Committee (ICO), students were behind more than half of the school's personal data breaches. In warnings to teachers and educational institutions, the ICO outlined an analysis of 215 data breaches reports resulting from security incidents within the school, finding that 57% of hacks were plucked by students. It was discovered that students had guessed commonly used passwords or simply wrote down login details for each ICO, making almost a third of violations possible. However, the ICO said a small…