Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
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Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries
The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron’s troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.
Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.
OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex Codes
Acqui-hires feel like they’re here to stay: the team behind Alex Codes, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
The blueprint for lasting companies and communities with Discord’s Jason Citron and Campuswire’s Tade Oyerinde at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last.”
Today is your last chance to exhibit your brand in front of 10K tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October, you need to act now.
Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain
Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And a legion of big names is joining the effort.
AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A
The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 for a 20th anniversary conversation on the future of venture
For more than two decades, Botha has helped shape some of the world’s most iconic companies — and his perspective has never been more important.
Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research
Captions, the AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators, is rebranding to Mirage.