Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

Microsoft Azure is facing a significant outage, with services affected like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.

San Francisco mayor: ‘We should be the testbed for emerging tech’

While San Francisco’s mayor Daniel Lurie is opening his arms to autonomous vehicles, other cities are more resistant. Boston, for instance, has considered a ban on autonomous vehicles in the city.

2024’s Startup Battlefield runner-up geCKo Materials reveals four new products at TechCrunch Disrupt

geCKo Materials returned to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech.

Box CEO Aaron Levie on how AI is changing the enterprise SaaS landscape

He painted a picture of a future of enterprise software where the SaaS is used for the core business workflow, and then the agents ride on top of that.

And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd

Glīd, which is trying to streamline cargo container logistics, has beaten out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home $100,000.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he’s become increasingly comfortable taking a back seat in software development tasks.

Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era

Now again under Rose’s control, the new Digg is creating a place for people to socialize and connect online within communities, similar to Reddit, but it has different ideas about how such a platform should work at a time when bots are nearly indistinguishable from humans.

YouTube announces ‘voluntary exit program’ for US staff

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday.

NBA champion Tristan Thompson and World Mobile launch community-owned network Uplift

With Uplift, every subscription will contribute to neighborhood-level network expansion, while local hosts that are known as “AirNode operators” will earn a portion of network revenue by providing community coverage.

Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing

Cluely’s Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral.