October 10, 2025

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and Anthropic : Former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak served from 2022 to 2024. Britain's Acoba flagged concerns of granting "unfair access" to Anthropic and Microsoft. Read More

UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations: The CMA has designated Google as having "strategic market status" in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such "a substantial and entrenched" position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition. Read More

Investors are betting $21 billion that the energy transition isn’t going away: Political shifts might have set back the energy transition, but large investors are betting that renewables are at the future of energy. Read More

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Shutdown silver lining? Your IPO review comes after investors buy in: With 90% of SEC staff furloughed, the agency announced on Thursday that it won't penalize companies for omitting pricing details during the shutdown. Read More

Flipkart's Super.money quietly partners with troubled Juspay as it expands its reach: Super.money, the fintech arm of Flipkart, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $1 billion valuation, after securing $50 million from Flipkart to date. Read More

While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse of the "first of many" massive Nvidia AI systems it is rolling out, starting now. Read More

Andreessen Horowitz denies report of India office, calls it 'fake news': a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!” Read More

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek: Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. Read More

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Startup Battlefield company SpotitEarly trained dogs and AI to sniff out common cancers: The company's at home multi-cancer breath test kit is expected to be available to consumers in 2026. Read More

Navigating the next frontier at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Where investors see opportunity in space: On the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Celeste Ford (Stellar Ventures), Chris Morales (Point72 Ventures), and Morgan Beller (NFX) explore where capital is flowing in the space economy. Don’t miss the ticket savings — register today to save up to $444. Read More

How AI is shaping the future of mobility with Uber’s CPO and Nuro’s co-founder at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: From ride-hailing at massive global scale to autonomous delivery bots on neighborhood streets, AI is reinventing how people and goods move. Uber Technologies’ chief product officer Sachin Kansal and Nuro co-founder Dave Ferguson take the stage to discuss the breakthroughs shaping mobility, the challenges of deploying AI in unpredictable real-world environments, and what the next decade of transportation will look like. Read More

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The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet: Famed robotics Rodney Brooks recently sounded the alarm on the amount of money going into humanoid startups. He's not the only skeptic. Read More

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