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The new Calm Sleep app is designed to help people wind down, sleep deeply, and wake up refreshed.

Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors.

MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general purpose tabletop robotic factory which it hopes to start shipping in two months.

Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services will be the unglamorous tasks.

The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple.

Amazon is hosting its Prime Big Deals Day sales event in October again.

Carl Pei’s Nothing is raising $200 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Rodatherm Energy emerged from stealth with $38 million in Series A funding. It plans to build a closed-loop geothermal power plant that uses refrigerants to move heat to the surface.

Investors continue to reward Alphabet’s stock after a judge declined to break up Google earlier this month.

Divergent Technologies’ new round will help the company expand its manufacturing footprint across the U.S.

The “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is intended to allow any retail investor to make money on startups, but the details are scant.

We asked YC-focused investors to name the startups from the Summer 2025 batch that generated the most interest.

Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breach, without saying how many were affected. 

Unlike traditional alarm clocks that can be silenced with a simple tap, Awake is intended to actively engage users’ brains to ensure they fully wake up.

The launch comes as the company rolled out its fifth-generation Snap Spectacles for developers last year and plans to launch a consumer version sometime in 2026.

Apple’s iOS 26 update with Liquid Glass redesign is available to all eligible iPhone users starting today.

OpenAI’s AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.

China is investigating Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies as trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up.

The Israeli government ordered the seizure of 187 wallets it said belong to the IRGC, which have over time received $1.5 billion in crypto, according to a blockchain analysis firm.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and we’re looking for motivated, curious, and energetic volunteers to help make it all happen.

PayPal introduces 1:1 direct payment links that will soon support crypto.

Back by overwhelming demand, we’ve added 10 more exhibit tables to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and this will be the final release before they sell out. This is your last chance to showcase your company in front of 10,000+ founders, VCs, and tech innovators from October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Emergence Capital General Partner Santi Subotovsky will join the Going Public Stage at Disrupt 2025 in a session called “What Comes After Breakout Success?.” Join 10,000+ tech and VC leaders from October 27-29 in San Francisco.

The “framework” deal with China is “between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon,” CNBC quoted Bessent as saying on the sidelines of a meeting between the two countries in Madrid on Monday.

Spotify is adding new features for free customers that let them pick and play tracks.

How a Harvard Law grad turned YC founder raised $48M to fight brand abuse in the AI era

Like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bret Taylor thinks we’re in an AI bubble — but he doesn’t sound too worried about it.

At least one website claims to allow users to chat with God.

OpenAI’s rise isn’t just a business story — it’s an ideological one. On Equity, Karen Hao, author of Empire AI, explores how the cult of AGI has fueled a billion-dollar race, justified massive spending on compute and data, and blurred the line between mission and profit.

Penske’s lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its monopoly power in search to force publishers to support AI summaries.