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The stakes don’t get higher than this. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists will take the stage one last time to compete for the $100,000 equity-free prize. Deciding their fate will be a select group of the most respected and influential investors in the industry — our final round judges. These are the leaders who sit at the very top of venture capital, and they’ll make the ultimate call on who takes home the title of Startup Battlefield champion. Don’t miss a minute of one of the most intense and anticipated startup pitch competitions of the year, live on the Disrupt Stage. Register now to save…
Cluely’s Roy Lee isn’t afraid to stir the pot — and he’s taking that bold energy to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. He’ll dive into how he’s building one of the most talked-about startups in AI, why courting controversy can be a growth strategy, and what it takes to stand out in a noisy consumer tech market. Don’t miss this chance to see Roy Lee shake things up at Disrupt. Register here to save up to $444 on your pass, and get 60% off a second. How Roy Lee’s rage-baiting built a $15 million AI startup Roy Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Cluely, an AI meeting assistant…
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was the middle of the day when Omar Diaw, known by his artist name “Chimere” — French for chimera — approached a blank wall off the main thoroughfare in Guinea ‘s capital and started spray-painting.“They know who I am,” he said confidently. Though it wasn’t clear who ”they” were, civilians and police didn’t bat an eye as Diaw’s fellow artists unloaded dozens of paint cans onto the roadside in Conakry.Graffiti has thrived for years in Diaw’s native Senegal, where the modern urban street art first took off in West Africa. But when he moved to…
OpenAI is teasing a series of updates coming to its viral app for AI-generated videos, Sora, which recently shot to the top of the App Store after a late September launch. The app, which remains at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada, will introduce video editing tools, offer the ability for users to create character “cameos” of pets and other objects, improve social features, and more. Plus, the company says the Android version of the app is “actually coming soon.” The announcement was made on X by Sora head Bill Peebles, who says the new creation tools will arrive…
Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company’s AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services. The companies are calling the deal “a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic partnership,” but Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources, that Lumen is going to spend over $200 million on Palantir’s tech over the course of several years. The agreement will see Lumen pairing Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) with its own edge computing, broadband infrastructure, and other digital services. The partnership comes as Lumen tries to transform…
BEELITZ, Germany (AP) — The pumpkin is the undisputed star of the show at the Klaistow farm near Berlin.Over 100,000 pumpkins in various shapes and colors are laid out across the farm and on shelves along its winding paths — 500 different varieties from around the world, each labeled with its name and origin. The huge pumpkin festival on the farm 56 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of the German capital, which is now taking place for the 22nd time, has become so popular that it draws up to 12,000 visitors on weekend days and more than 5,000 on weekdays.This year…
Hall of Fame basketball player Carmelo Anthony said Thursday, in the wake of bombshell indictments detailing illegal NBA betting, that the rapid rise of sports gambling is putting growing pressure on today’s athletes.Speaking with CNBC Sport, the former New York Knicks star said the betting culture “mentally affects” players.”They may say they don’t care … but they care about it, because it affects them,” he said. On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were separately arrested following investigations into alleged insider bets on basketball games. Anthony was not…
Travis Kelce, a 2024 Super Bowl champion tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs—and famously the fiancé of singer Taylor Swift—is investing in an amusement park dear to his heart. Kelce, who grew up in suburban Cleveland, is a longtime fan of Cedar Point, the award-winning amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, located about an hour’s drive west of the city. In a release, JANA Partners announced that it has partnered with Kelce, along with consumer executive Glenn Murphy and technology executive Dave Habiger in an investment in Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. These new investors now collectively own an economic interest…
What if the next industrial revolution doesn’t happen on Earth? William Bruey, founder and CEO of Varda Space Industries, is on a mission to prove it can — and will — happen in orbit. He’s taking the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, to share how his team is transforming outer space into the ultimate manufacturing frontier. Savings won’t last long. Save up to $444 on your pass before doors open on October 27, and grab a plus-one ticket for 60% off while you’re at it. Teams save even more…
Mikaela Shiffrin has a new title to go with all-time winningest World Cup ski racer and two-time Olympic champion — podcast host.The 30-year-old from Colorado will launch “What’s the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin,” on Oct. 29. It’s all part of her expanding brand leading into the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February. She just unveiled a personal logo, too, featuring her initials, MS, shaped like a mountain with a skier in a tuck position. Her podcast is a way to share the twists and turns that come with skiing, along with telling stories about what drives athletes — maybe even celebrities…