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Nvidia reported another large quarter this week with revenue of $46.7 billion. This is a 56% year-on-year increase, driven almost entirely by AI demand. However, the stocks slide as CEO Jensen Huang questioned how long this type of growth would last, despite bold forecasts for $3 trillion to $4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending over the next five years. Today in Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony Ha reveal what the market response reveals about Nvidia's revenues and investors' confidence in AI Boom's lifespan. Hear and listen to the entire episode: As always, Equity will be back for you…

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re tracking layoffs in the tech industry in 2025 so you can see the trajectory of the cutbacks and understand the impact on innovation across all types of companies. As businesses continue to embrace AI and automation, this tracker serves as a reminder of the human…

TechCrunch's 2025 is where more than 10,000 founders, VCS and Tech Innovators will clash in Moscone West, San Francisco from October 27-29. However, once the venue door closes, the conversation does not end. They spill across San Francisco into rooms, rooftops and lounges where real connections occur throughout the week. That's where the side event appears I will be holding my own gathering at Disrupt Week from October 25th to 31st. From salon-style dinners to hands-on workshops and pitch-offs at packed bars. The format is yours. Amplify and promote events so that they reach the people who matter most. There…

Mississippi's extremely broad age guarantee law has led to debate about which platforms such as Blueski and Mastodon offer the best solution to avoid cracking down on internet freedom. The company that created the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to services in Mississippi rather than complying with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that as a small team, it lacked resources to implement the substantial technical changes required by the law, raising concerns about the wide scope of the law and potential privacy implications. The law, HB 1126,…

Threads is testing a new feature that makes it easy to share long format text on social networks. Meta checked with TechCrunch on Thursday. This feature allows users to attach blocks of text to their posts instead of creating a thread for several different posts when they try to share more detailed ideas or ideas. App researcher Radu Oncescu first spotted the new “text attachment” feature on iOS and shared the screenshots of it. According to the app's new features, users are “designed to attach longer text, become creative with styling tools, and share deeper thoughts, news snippets, bookings and…

What happens if the first 10 employers are not at all people? TechCrunch, which takes place in Western Moscon in San Francisco from October 27-29, is delving into a new wave of startups that stumbled 2025 and replaced or augmented early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support. It has been automated since day one. Hosted on Builders Stage, the panel features a combination of technical founders and veteran operators who are actually doing it, debating where the boundaries between humans and machines should be drawn, and how far it is. Meet the speaker Caleb Peffer,…

TransUnion, a credit reporting giant, discloses data breaches that affect the personal information of more than 4.4 million customers. In a filing Thursday with the Maine Attorney General's Office, Transunion attributed the July 28 violation to unauthorized access to third-party applications that store customer personal data for its U.S. consumer support business. Transunion claimed that “credit information was not accessed,” but did not provide immediate evidence of that claim. The data breach notification did not specify that certain types of personal data were stolen. Transunion spokesman David Blumberg did not immediately comment when contacted by TechCrunch. Transunion is one of…

WhatsApp is launching new AI features that allow users to reposition, proofread or adjust the tone of their messages, the meta-owned company announced Wednesday. A new feature called “Writing Help” uses Meta's private processing technology. This allows users to receive responses generated by Meta or WhatsApp reading the original message or the proposed rewrite and receiving AI-generated responses. This means that even when people use the new tools, messages on the platform remain private. Writing help allows users to get AI-generated suggestions that rewrite messages in professional, entertaining, collaborative, or paraphrased ways. WhatsApp introduced the feature to product images that…

According to the FBI's top cyber chief, the Chinese hacking campaign, which previously hacked by nine US telecommunications and internet providers, has been confirmed to have hacked at least 200 American companies. FBI assistant director Brett Leatherman told the Washington Post that hackers called Salt Timone have also invaded businesses in 80 countries, revealing the first global Chinese spy campaign. Leatherman did not name the hacked company. AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen have previously been identified as violations, while Charter Communication and Windstream were later designated as victims. Hackers targeted call records among senior American politicians and officials, allowing them to…

ChatGpt rivals like Google's Gemini, Xai's Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are filling the gap in Openai's popular AI chatbot ChatGpt, according to a new report focusing on the consumer AI landscape from venture company Andreessen Horowitz. This report presents two and a half years of data on the evolving consumer use of AI products in the fifth iteration. And for the fifth time, 14 companies appeared on the list of top AI products: ChatGpt, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Gamma, Quillbot, Civitai, and Hugging Face. Image credit: A16Z Companies represent a…