Meet your new banker: an algorithm. Your company’s talent acquisition, your corporate accountant, your investment broker, your credit assessor… all on the list of jobs that are now accepting applications from non-organic AI employees. Since the debut of generative (makes new stuff) and agentic (completes assigned tasks) AI specialists, the corporate world has been chasing a future that AI promised:...
October 30, 2025
India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries
Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru.
Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub
Google’s investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.
Smart ring maker Oura raises $900M from Fidelity
Oura is raising new funding of $900 million as its valuation reaches nearly $11 billion
SpaceX wraps action-packed Starship V2 era as program moves to V3
Farewell, V2: SpaceX on Monday night sent Starship’s current configuration on one last test flight, in a mission that the company says hit all its key goals, moving the program into its next phase.
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Instagram users under 18 will now by default only see content that adheres to PG-13 ratings applied to movies, avoiding themes like extreme violence, sexual nudity, and graphic drug use.
Elon Musk vs. the regulators
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The ZoraSafe app wants to protect older people online and will present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
ZoraSafe is designed to protect some of the least protected internet users out there: your parents and grandparents.
Strava eyes IPO as Gen Z trades dating apps for running clubs
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Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots
Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled “EagleEye,” a helmeted computing system that seeks to turn soldiers into AI-augmented warfighters.