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Space economy is no longer just about rockets and satellites, but also about creating entirely new models for building resilient infrastructure, deploying autonomous systems, and operating and defending off-earth assets. TechCrunch will be held in 2025 at Moscone West, San Francisco on October 27th-29th, and is where these earthquake changes in space innovation will be realized. This week we will be registering as a group and storing it on a large scale. If you register for groups 4-9 at 11:59 pm before today, save up to 20% with your ticket. Or, if you're going solo, save up to $444 by…

TechCrunch's founder and investor bundle sale will be live in 2025, but only until 11:59pm tonight. This is the only chance of this year, savings on the group bundle of founder pass and even bigger discounts on group investors' passes. From today, these transactions have disappeared. The 2025 disruption brings together over 10,000 founders, investors and operators from around the world to tackle the toughest challenges and uncover the biggest opportunities for technology. Image credit: Nomugarai Why is this important to founders? TechCrunch is not just a meeting, it's a startup launchpad. With the Founder Pass, you get: Founder First…

The well-known English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to force victims and threatened to release around a billion records from companies that store customer data in a cloud database hosted by Salesforce. A leisurely organized group known as Lapsus $, publishes a dedicated data leak site on the Dark Web, known as the scattered spiders and Shinyhunters, and called the scattered Lapsus $Hunters. The website, first discovered by threat intelligence researchers on Friday and seen by TechCrunch, aims to pressure victims to pay hackers to prevent stolen data from being published online. “Please contact us to regain control over…

When Jamie Gar graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a Masters in Aeronatics, there was one place he wanted to go next: the Desert. Specifically, the Mohab Desert. A company called Scaled Composites has spent years developing experimental aircraft on its dry land, and Gall wanted it. He may have tried to get a more traditional aerospace job, but Gar was worried about “working for five years at Latch.” But with scaled composites? “I knew to build something, and I'll do it soon, and I'll be a graduate of a university who owns the actual results,” he said. Two…

Zehra Naqvi, 26, grew up as an obsessive fangirl in the 2010s. This was the time of Tumblr and Twitter. She gets up all night, breaking Marvel movie release dates and analyzing the movements of One Direction members. She eventually gained 250,000 followers on two platforms. “These early internet rabbit holes taught me how magical it felt to contribute to culture, not only to consume it,” she told TechCrunch. She founded the company at the age of 12, studied art history in Colombia, and later became a consumer investor at Headline Ventures. (She also writes the popular consumer newsletter The…

Consumer AI is at a breakout moment. Few startups have won the spotlight like Phia this year. The AI-powered shopping assistant has become one of 2025's most talked about launches, not just the vision for Gen Z Shops, but also the vision of the founder of the powerhouse, which leads Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni. In the 2025 destruction of TechCrunch, which took place in West Moscon in San Francisco on October 27-29, the two share how to build Phia into durable consumer brands, what it takes to expand in one of the most competitive markets of technology, and how…

According to Google, hackers associated with the prolific ransomware group are sending horror emails to executives from “many” large organizations after claiming they had stolen sensitive information from a set of business software products developed by Oracle. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, the head of Google's cybercrime analysis Genevieve Stark said that hackers began sending emails to executives around September 29th, but the Tech giant has yet to demonstrate the hackers' claims. The emails were sent from hundreds of compromised accounts, including those used by known financially motivated cybercriminal groups belonging to the CLOP ransomware gang. Charles Carmakal, chief…

According to a new Bloomberg report, Openai has sold $6.6 billion in stake held by current and former employees. The sale brings Openai to a total valuation of $500 billion. This is the best private company has ever achieved. Buyers included SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, MGX, and T. Rowe Price. This sale was not a traditional funding round, as cash was sent to individuals holding Openai shares or options, rather than the company's financial resources. Still, it is a powerful retention tool for the company and faces great pressure from Meta's newly revitalized AI lab. This summer, Meta…

Tik Tok! The Bundle Sale for TechCrunch Founders and Investors will close in 2025 at 11:59pm on October 3, 2025. Founders will then no longer be able to register in bulk at discounts, and investors will return to the standard 15% savings. Don't miss the chance to save more and recharge your experience of disruption as a community. Interference is a startup launchpad for founders and investors The 2025 turmoil unites more than 10,000 founders, investors and technology leaders around the world. It is the ultimate launchpad for startups at every stage, with investors first finding the next big opportunity,…

An offshore crypto platform with billions of dollars is on the crosshairs of the Government of India as government financial watchdogs move to 25 exchanges to not comply with anti-money laundering obligations. India (FIU-IND) has issued 25 crypto exchanges including Bingx, Lbank, Coinw, Probit Global, BTCC, Ascendex, Zoomex, and Poloniex. The regulator has also ordered the platform to withdraw its apps and websites from public access in India. However, most remained accessible at press time. Of the 25 exchanges, 14 have more than $9 billion in assets, recording trading volumes of around $20 billion over the past 24 hours, according…