A flash sale running through Friday 7 August is trimming an extra $100 off an already-discounted TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, pushing the total saving against full price to as much as $400. The deal expires at 11:59 p.m. PT on Friday; after that, the extra $100 disappears, and the next pricing tier takes effect on 21 August. What the Discounted Prices Actually Look Like The flash sale stacks on top of an existing $300 reduction. Before the extra $100 is applied, current discounted prices are: Attendee Pass $749 (down from $1,049), Founder Pass $799 (down from $1,099), and Investor Pass…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
Reddit AI moderation tools are at the centre of a broad infrastructure overhaul the company announced this week, one that signals a gradual retreat from the karma-based gatekeeping that has long frustrated new users trying to break into its communities. The platform, which says more than 130 million people visit Reddit every day across over 100,000 communities, has built its reputation system around karma: a score users accumulate through upvoted posts and comments. Communities have long used karma thresholds and account-age requirements as a blunt filter against spam and bots. Reddit now wants its own abuse-prevention infrastructure to carry that…
Zoox robotaxi charges will go live in Las Vegas on 10 August, when the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company formally opens its commercial operations to paying passengers for the first time. The move follows a string of regulatory milestones that have taken more than a decade to accumulate. Zoox, founded in 2014 with the aim of building a purpose-built electric robotaxi from the ground up, was acquired by Amazon in 2020. Later that year it unveiled its cube-shaped vehicle: no steering wheel, no pedals, a moonroof, and a self-driving stack the company had developed in-house over years of iterative testing. The…
The Reuters-covered River Series C funding round, totalling $120 million, marks something of a turning point for the Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler startup: the money is no longer about building a product. It is about building a factory. River disclosed the round on Wednesday. Elev8 Venture Partners and Claypond Capital led the raise, joined by Singularity AMC, Anicut Capital, 360 ONE Asset, JIF Capital, and HDFC AMC, along with returning backers Yamaha Motor, Al-Futtaim Group, and Mitsui. Less than 10% to 12% of the round comprised venture debt, provided by Alteria Capital, Innoven Capital, and Stride Ventures, according to Economic Times.…
The Wispr Flow meeting notetaker is now live on Mac, arriving at a moment when the company is negotiating what could be its most consequential funding round yet. The tool uses system audio to transcribe meetings without joining them as a bot, cleans up transcripts, generates action items, and lets users query their full meeting history through AI. The launch follows an update to Wispr Flow’s Terms of Service that first signalled the product’s arrival. The refreshed terms define ‘Meeting Data’ broadly: meeting audio, transcripts, participant information, speaker labels, titles, descriptions, times, calendar metadata, AI-generated summaries, action items, and follow-up…
SpaceX’s first earnings call as a public company offered a revealing glimpse into a dynamic that investors will need to get comfortable with quickly: on every major topic discussed, Elon Musk made a bolder claim than the one his own management team had just carefully constructed. The SpaceX first earnings call, held on Tuesday, was as much a study in corporate communication under Musk as it was a financial briefing for new shareholders. A CFO’s Careful Language, Then Musk Chief financial officer Bret Johnsen led with a meticulously hedged forecast. SpaceX had already contracted $6.7 billion of cloud services revenue…
The Waymo Dallas robotaxi service is now open to anyone who downloads the app, no waitlist required. The Alphabet-owned company announced Tuesday that residents and visitors alike can hail a driverless ride immediately, the latest move in its methodical push to expand autonomous vehicle operations across the United States. From Waitlist to Walk-Up: How Dallas Got Here Waymo has had a presence in Dallas since last year, when it began testing its technology on public streets and announced plans for a commercial launch in 2026. The service opened to the public in February but initially operated through a waitlist. About…
The analysis that mapped seven years of Tesla earnings calls tells a clear story: Tesla AI and robotics now occupy roughly half of everything Elon Musk says when he speaks to investors, a figure that stood at between 15% and 20% as recently as 2022. The car business that still generates most of the revenue has been relegated, in Musk’s rhetoric at least, to an afterthought. Tesla AI and Robotics: What the Numbers Actually Show The data comes from a collaboration between TechCrunch and Hudson Labs, a New York-based financial research firm. Hudson Labs sourced transcripts from S&P Market Intelligence…
Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash, the Milan-headquartered software roll-up announced on Tuesday, picking up a once-richly valued database and workflow company for roughly 2.7x its annual recurring revenue and a steep discount to the valuation Airtable commanded at the height of the 2021 technology boom. The deal, disclosed in a press release filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. It marks Bending Spoons’ first acquisition since it listed on Nasdaq on 1 July 2026 under the ticker BSP. Why Bending Spoons Acquires Airtable at a Fraction…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used a record-breaking quarter to deliver one of the more unusual arguments in recent corporate history: that the companies building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models are, in their own way, Marxists. The charge arrived in Palantir’s Q2 2025 shareholder letter, published on 4 August 2025, as the Denver-based data analytics firm reported results that few in its sector could match. According to the Palantir Q2 2025 SEC press release, total revenue for the three months ended 30 June 2025 reached $1.004 billion, a 48% increase year on year, with a 27% operating margin. Net…
