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Tesla said on its Q3 earnings call that it will expand Cybercab service from Austin to Dallas next month and to other cities by the end of 2026. It also plans to sell Cybercabs to fleet operators by year-end. CFO Vaibhav Taneja said Tesla wants to "own transportation of any kind on Earth". The expansion could put Tesla in direct competiti…
Spotify confirmed during its Q3 investor call that it is rolling out QR code verification for Family Plan members, which co-CEO Alex Norström called a "routine improvement" to existing verification tools rather than a crackdown. The app prompts members to confirm they live with the plan manager by scanning a QR code shown on the manager's…
Uber and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership under which Uber's whole global workforce, about 30,000 employees, will use ChatGPT Work. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Work in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent for corporate workflows. Uber first piloted it with 1,000 employees, about 80% of them non-engineers across finance, operations…
TechCrunch recapped the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort at Disrupt 2026. The event selected 200 startups, and Intero Biosystems won the $100,000 equity-free prize and Disrupt Cup, with Apate as runner-up. The article is event and business news with no incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware content. The only security-adjacent item…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors from Peak XV, Index Ventures and Bessemer described how founders can raise a Series A in the current market. Shailendra Singh of Peak XV called seed and venture markets the most dysfunctional he has seen and predicted a correction as soon as 2027. He cited inflated ARR figures, rounds priced at up to…
Spotify reported 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion in Q3 revenue. On the earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said AI agents will help the business because entertainment is not a chore people want to delegate. Spotify wants to be the music service agents choose, and it already integrates with ChatGPT, Claude and Me…
Helion, a fusion startup, announced a three-year, $175 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce under the CHIPS Act. The money will fund R&D and manufacturing of advanced semiconductors and power electronics for its fusion power plants. Helion also disclosed a new $50 million private investment from an undisclosed investor, brin…
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that automates and manages tasks. It competes with Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hark, Instinct, Grok Bot and Fo. Duet runs on the Claude Opus 5.5 model and works in the background in its own virtual machine, returning to the user when it needs approval. It …
Nirva, a startup founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to $33 million (earlier backers include Lightspeed and South Park Commons). Its first product is a roughly 8 g pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, priced at $249, w…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based Chinese AI lab, has reportedly raised about $15 billion (roughly 100 billion yuan), according to Bloomberg as relayed by TechCrunch. The round came two days after the U.S. ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's AI technology from their systems over security concerns. Potential investors reporte…
Tesla said on its Q3 earnings call that it will begin selling the Cybercab, an autonomous two-seater with no steering wheel or traditional controls, to customers by the end of 2026. Current production is destined for Tesla's own robotaxi fleet, and external sales will start small. Elon Musk said unsupervised FSD for existing owners is now…
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…
On its Q3 earnings call, Meta confirmed a plan, first reported by Semafor, to create a new class of non-voting capital stock. It will be distributed to existing shareholders as a stock dividend. CFO Susan Li said the shares are meant for capital raising, employee compensation and acquisitions while preserving the voting power of Class A a…
Airbnb has updated its policy to stop hosts from requiring guests to strip beds, wash and put away dishes, start laundry or remove trash before checkout. The rule applies to reservations made on or after November 20. The change responds to long-running guest complaints about burdensome checkout instructions and fines for not disposing of …
Meta said on its Q3 earnings call that its AI agent app Muse has more than 10 million users, with about 25% of those who set it up using it daily. Shopping is a leading activity, and over a quarter of engaged shoppers had an average purchase above $200. Muse uses the Plaid connector to enable agentic shopping and can also connect to users…
This article is promotional event content, not a cyber threat report. TechCrunch announces Founder Summit 2026, a one-day gathering for startup founders and investors on November 4, 2026 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston. The agenda covers fundraising, AI-native company building and leadership, with speakers from Toast, HqO, Bessemer Ve…
Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Tumblr, has begun layoffs, and insiders expect more cuts. Over at least the past week the cuts have hit the communications team, social team, WordPress.com and the VIP enterprise business. The turmoil follows the board's failed attempt in September to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg, wh…
Recursive, an AI startup led by CEO Richard Socher, released its first model, Flint, on 21 October 2026. It is a free coding model that runs locally on a laptop. The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, contributed to nearly every stage of development, which let a small team build the model in under four months.…
Year-old AI startup Flapping Airplanes announced a $1 billion Series A round co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. The round comes nine months after a $180 million seed round from GV, Sequoia and Index that valued the company at $1.5 billion. Other investors include Kleiner Perkins, Valor, Atreides, A and Nvidia. …
Tesla announced it has started production of its Optimus humanoid robot at its Fremont, California factory, on a line in space once used for electric vehicles. Its Q3 shareholder letter calls the units "first production-quality bots". Q3 revenue was flat at $28.04 billion, and net income fell 43% to $787 million from $1.37 billion a year …
