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The intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital. Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart and No.32 for the Top 100 Business News All time chart.
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Anthropic’s S-1 is here. Does AI pay off?
After weeks of speculation and leaks, Anthropic finally released the S-1 filing for its IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-officially-files-for-its-public-debut/), showing revenue of $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026, w
The 'Vulnpocalypse' is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems (https://techcrunch.co
The PHP Armageddon reminds us that the internet is held together by glue and dreams
The internet is having an off week, to say the least. Security researchers at OpenAI and Google-owned Wiz used AI to uncover critical flaws in PHP (https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/php-armageddon-openai-googles-wiz-find-ancient-holes-panic
Meta and Instinct are racing to build your AI assistant. Wabi has a different idea.
It seems like every big AI player is building a personal agent. Meta has Muse, OpenAI launched Dots, and a startup calledInstinct recently raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instin
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amulyavishwanath/), who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators,
Who’s the sheriff in AI’s wild west? (Equity Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026)
The Equity (https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/equity/) crew was live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane took over the Builders Stage Tuesday morning to tackle a growing challenge for the AI industry: what
Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs (https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/amazon-responds-to-data-center-backlash-says-it-no-longer-uses-ndas/) when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft
After selling to P&G and Lululemon, these founders are building for life beyond the screen
Tristan Walker and Brynn Putnam both built and sold major consumer companies. Now, they’re building products designed to bring people together. Today on Equity (https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/equity/), we’re bringing you a conversation Tec
Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/pledge-signed-by-president-trump-and-
A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/daniel-eks-body-scanning-startup-neko-health-raises-another-700m/) to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company c
Meta’s Muse just stole the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? It’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5 (https://techcrunch.com/20
What’s next for cybersecurity, according to Index Ventures’ Shardul Shah
As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of secu
Automattic's 33-Hour coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
A week after an Anthropic researcher's doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company's CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/anthropic-ceo-outlines-plan-to-pace-the-frontier/)
Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids
“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dejongem/) to spend six years build
An ex-Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/gambling-with-our-lives-anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-against-self-improving-ai/) that the company is “racing straight to self-improvin
ControlAI's Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it's an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it's inevitable, but recent safety incidents (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/openais-rogue-agents-keep-escaping-with-no-formal-process-to-investigate-them/) like OpenAI's Hugg
Apple's Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It's officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/tim-cooks-parting-message-apple-is-in-the-hands-of-a-product-builder/) as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ter
We're ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory according to Pangram's CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving pla
Will TikTok and YouTube follow Meta’s new rules for teens?
Earlier this week, Meta agreed to pay $18 billion (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-for-18-billion-in-lawsuit-brought-by-29-states-over-social-media-harms-to-children/) and make sweeping changes (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08
From the Spotify Mafia to the Lovable Mafia: inside Stockholm's founder network
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/lovable-confirms-new-13-3b-valuation-raises-another-400m/), roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t t
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has
AI has a GPU pricing problem. Silicon Data wants to fix it.
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still
Meta's 'open' AI, data centers' hidden costs, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
Meta released Glimmer this week (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/metas-new-glimmer-ai-model-offers-a-hint-at-zuckerbergs-personal-intelligence-vision/), an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contras
Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard
AI notetaking hardware has taken off (https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/ai-notetaker-hardware-devices-pins-pendants-record-transcribe/) over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing ear
Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley's leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they're forming a new government. And whether you're thinking of Twitter's old “town hall in your pocket” or An
Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital
Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It's a trend that's been building with a16z's acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/a16z-acqui-hires-vc-tech-
AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, Sam Altman says (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate/) maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments come just days after one of OpenAI's ow
‘If this isn't addiction, I don't know what is’: Light Phone's founders get real about screen time and building for the anti-smartphone generation
With the Light Phone (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/light-is-modernizing-the-flip-phone-with-light-flip/), Kaiwei Tang (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangkaiwei/) and Joe Hollier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-hollier/) have spent over
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi went viral this week (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/18/kimi-threat-or-menace/) for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it (http
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/) compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures' Ma
