September 26, 2025

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

SVB supports you on the journey to Series A and what comes next, with expert guidance, specialized products, and a team that knows the innovation economy inside and out. Find out why fast-growing startups turn to SVB to build their business beyond Series A.

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. Read More

'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." Read More

TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet. Read More

Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found spilling online after security lapse: Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records, and the data was eventually secured. Indian fintech company NuPay took responsibility for the "configuration" error. Read More

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. Read More

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How developers are using Apple's local AI models with iOS 26: As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple's local AI models. Read More

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