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Huupe a smart basketball hoop startup raises its game with 11M

Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI

Runway best known for its videogenerating AI models raises 308M

The startup boom failed to build a creator utopia

Nailing subscriptions in India

Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok

Hygraph raises 30M to scale out a new federated approach to managing digital content

Streaming media company Plex raises 40M as it nears profitability

Lanch which creates food delivery brands for influencers gobbles up 69M

Clarity raises 16M to fight deepfakes through detection

Startup Breakr raises more capital pays 35M to creators

Fuzzy Doors Viewscreen onset AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder

How Mavens AIrun serendipity network can make social media interesting again

Retail media targeting on the AI maturity curve

Meta faces 600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit

Sills new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks

Elon guts Twitter Google shutters Hangouts and the tech layoffs continue

Web Summit names exWikimedia CEO Katherine Maher to take over in wake of Cosgrave controversy

Daily Crunch: Former Apple employee pleads guilty to stealing autonomous vehicle design details

Sony Music warns tech companies over unauthorized use of its content to train AI

Former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar joins Robloxs board

Warner Bros Discovery CTO and CPO explain how they made Max less buggy

Komi a landing page tool for content creators raises 5M seed round

YCbacked Dumme raises 34M for its AI video editor that turns longform YouTube videos into Shorts

VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create not exploit

TechCrunch Minute: Audible deploys AInarrated audiobooks Can it replace the human touch

Netflix is revamping search with AI to improve discovery

Adobes working on generative video too

Warner Bros teams up with web3 startup Eluvio to launch Lord of the Rings NFTs

Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source

Twelve Labs lands 12M for AI that understands the context of videos

Indian social network Koo to shut down

AI music generators could be a boon for artists but also problematic

Techs growth story shifted this year How has that impacted transparency

MoviePass explores a daily fantasy platform for film buffs

Audi to join Formula 1 with Germanbuilt hybrid power unit

Chroma backed by Pinterest and Twitter cofounders sells to AI audio company Bronze

Subsets helps subscription businesses reduce churn with retention experiments and explainable AI

Gas Slay whats next Fire

Supercharge your brand visibility with an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

AI startup Odyssees new tool can generate photorealistic 3D worlds

Dummes AI video editor creates YouTube Shorts in minutes

Everything is stupid and bad right now maybe this 200 portable turntable will fix it

OnlyFans profitability proves the creator economy boom was real enough

Jack Dorsey breaks his silence owns responsibility for why everyone is in this situation at Twitter

NFL considers a cheaper Sunday Ticket offering on YouTube with fewer games

EventMobi acquires a16zbacked virtual events platform Run The World

Ready Player Me a platform to build dynamic crossgame avatars for virtual worlds raises 56M led by a16z

Heeyo built an AI chatbot to be a billion kids interactive tutor and friend

Getting people to try new things IRL with Sarah Peterson from The Nudge