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  • Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

    Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

    Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that…

  • Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

    Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

    Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring both of its vehicles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, the latest move in a continued expansion across the United States. The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous…

  • Astro Teller is joining the stage at Disrupt 2025 in October

    Astro Teller is joining the stage at Disrupt 2025 in October

    TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the…

  • BMW, I am so breaking up with you

    BMW, I am so breaking up with you

    I want to be clear from the outset. I’ve never been a car enthusiast. My driving history includes a hand-me-down Volvo with a hole in the floorboards and a series of aggressively practical vehicles, including a VW Golf and a Mazda SUV in which I hauled my family around for 12 years. Then I leased…

  • LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B

    LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B

    Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance, tax, procurement, and HR in Japan. Yet only 16% of digital transformations succeed, and that’s only 4–11% in traditional industries. The main barriers? Weak leadership commitment, a rigid culture, and a lack of digital talent.…

  • India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

    India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

    Lithium has become the default choice for battery-powered systems, but its limitations — from volatile supply chains to short lifespans — are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Offgrid Energy Labs, a deep-tech startup based in India, wants to make lithium less central, especially when it comes to battery storage. The seven-year-old startup, incubated at IIT…

  • Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition

    Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition

    Every seat in Copenhagen’s Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the vibe coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year’s TechBBQ conference. Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It’s one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding,…

  • Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

    Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

    Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that…

  • Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

    Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

    Veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch premiered his new movie “Father Mother Sister Brother” today at the Venice Film Festival, where journalists asked him about Mubi, the streaming platform that co-produced the film — specifically, about Mubi’s recent $100 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. “I was disappointed and disconcerted by this relationship,” Jarmusch said,…

  • UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

    UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

    The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children…