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YouTubers are no longer just creators, and in some cases, their side businesses are growing faster than their channels.

Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

Threads officially debuts communities, dedicated spaces to have casual chats around a topic.

Slow or stopped permitting and a frozen visa process are existential threats for some startups.

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The Trump administration canceled over 300 awards related to clean energy on October 1. The states with affected projects all voted for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

A former OpenAI researcher looked into how ChatGPT can mislead delusional users about their reality and its own capabilities

AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new ‘background assistant’ to handle multiple tasks via Comet.  

Amazon’s new “Add to Delivery” button makes it easier for Prime members to buy more and tack on items to existing orders.

The company will likely sell fewer EVs this year than in both 2024 and 2023, making next year’s launch of the R2 SUV even more important.

Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni are redefining how Gen Z shops with AI. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, they’ll share how they’re scaling one of the year’s hottest startups into a lasting consumer brand. Register to join.

a16z releases its first AI spending report that shows which AI-native application layer companies startups are actually spending money on .

Google says hackers associated with the Clop ransomware gang are emailing executives at multiple organizations claiming to have stolen their personal information from a suite of Oracle E-Business apps.

OpenAI employees sold $6.6B in shares, leading company’s valuation to jump to $500B.

Bloomberg reports that the tech giant is developing at least two types of smart glasses.

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Spacecoin envisions a decentralized rival to SpaceX’s Starlink.

Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity

Of the 25 offshore crypto exchanges targeted by India, 14 hold more than $9 billion in assets.

The tax credit’s expiration on September 30 motivated buyers to take advantage of the $7,500 incentive, giving Tesla a shot to return to sales growth in 2025.

Founder Bryan Onel says too many companies are doing the bare minimum to meet their security compliance obligations, and raised $33 million to help his customers get both compliant and secure.

Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.

The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users’ phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory — and one that the company has disputed before.

Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.

The six-year-old firm’s third fund is nearly the size of it previous fund raised during the fintech boom in early 2022.

Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

“Are bills like SB 53 the thing that will stop us from beating China? No,” said Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI. “I think it is just genuinely intellectually dishonest to say that that is the thing that will stop us in the race.”

Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she’s the first of many AI-generated stars.

The SPAC King’s newest, dubbed “American Exceptionalism,” went public with $345 million. But Chamath doesn’t want people to buy shares.