Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds
Z.ai, the Chinese model developer listed in Hong Kong as Zhipu, has raised about $5bn in a single move. Roughly $2bn came from placing 21.97 million new shares at HK$714, about 10…
Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act
Barack Obama told a closed Democratic fundraiser last Thursday that artificial intelligence is “moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think it can…
From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing
Investment tools are powerful, but largely reactive. They help investors research, analyze and act, but they still depend on the investor to decide what deserves attention and whe…
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out
Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider. The filing remain…
From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?
At IFA Berlin 2026, ARBREST put a chair through movements that office furniture often treats as exceptions. COVE is the new brand’s first product, made its world debut with an IFA…
Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity
Wholly AI-generated songs are no longer accepted in Australia. This August, ABC News reported that the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) stripped machine-made track…
The detrimental cost of scaling too fast
AI has crossed a decisive threshold in the enterprise. McKinsey’s 2026 global survey found that 44% of organizations now report scaling AI across the enterprise, up from 38% a yea…
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s eco…
Revolut handed customer passports to scammers using a real government email domain
Revolut gave sensitive customer information to criminals who requested it from what appeared to be a government email address, and did so because the address was real. The company…
TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason
OpenAI will not go public this year, and Sam Altman says the reason is safety. “I would say not 2026,” he told Fortune in an interview at the company’s San Francisco headquarters …
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake
Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or And…
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pr…
Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29…
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide local authorities on the work, ten days after seven companies asked it for exact…
Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roadster reveal
Tesla says it will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October, the first firm date since it showed the car as a concept in 2017 and promised production for 2020. European re…
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Wa…
Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1
Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.