More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal

A wider leadership shake-up at Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it paused work on its vehicle program and its CEO and CTO left.

As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

YouTube Music’s new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform’s new hub for AI experiments.

‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called “The Social Reckoning.”

Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation  

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.

What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach “pure fantasy thinking.”

Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat

After Sinclair and Nexstar pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air, the old affiliate model looks shakier than ever. Even Disney might do better without broadcast.