Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh…
Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or …
Intero Biosystems wants drugmakers to test on mini human intestines, not animals
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand…
CedarDB wants one database to handle both transactions and analytics, as AI agents raise the stakes
Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance wit…
Ambani’s Jio seeks to raise $3.2B in what could be India’s biggest IPO
Jio plans to use most of its IPO proceeds to repay debt as it expands beyond telecom.
Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing in…
Colossal Biosciences announces new AI platform to help accelerate de-extinction efforts
Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.
Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri AI is also still missing in the E…
Flock CEO: We haven’t ‘fired’ any police departments as customers
Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the surveillance company has not cancelled contracts of any police department or law enforcement agency, despite reports of abuse.
Electric vehicle sales in the US are showing signs of life
The electric vehicle market in the U.S. has been growing for the last three consecutive quarters.
TimeTeller puts our internal clocks at the center of personalized medicine
German startup TimeTeller has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm; it aims to reduce side effects from cancer treatments.
The charged OpenAI engineer had a one-way ticket out of the US, a filing shows
Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest, according to a court f…
Ambrosia Energy will build a 10 GWh factory in Texas to make batteries for off-grid data centers
Startup Ambrosia Energy will build a massive factory to crank out batteries to augment solar panels, creating a round-the-clock clean power plant.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is t…
Hiyd is a health tracker that attaches to the watch you already wear
Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.
Modal raises $750M at $15.75bn valuation as run rate tops $1bn
Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D round at a $15.75 billion valuation. Accel…
YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.
Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California
Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part. The Oxfordshire com…
Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations
Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environ…
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito traps into an AI-powered surveillance network
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosq…
EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025
US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric…