October 05, 2025

TechCrunch Top 3

If you're not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs: New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested. Read More

Sources: Naveen Rao's new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation with backing from a16z : Former Databricks AI chief is raising $1 billion to build an Nvidia rival through a novel approach. Read More

OpenAI's Sora soars to No. 1 on Apple's US App Store: OpenAI's Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. Read More

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Sunday Must-Reads

Snapchat is going to charge for storage — here's how to save your Memories for free: If your Memories exceed the new limit, you will need to either export them or sign up for one of Snapchat's new Memories Storage plans in order to preserve them. Read More

Event startup Partiful wasn't stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos: The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing granular location data from users' profile photos. Read More

Sam Altman says Sora will add 'granular,' opt-in copyright controls: OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Read More

Google's Gemini AI app could soon be getting a big makeover: The company is seemingly experimenting with a new user interface that would shift the app from having a chatbot-style look and feel to one offering a scrollable feed with suggested prompts accompanied by eye-catching photos. Read More

Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B: It's been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase. Read More

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Last but Not Least

With its latest acqui-hire, OpenAI is doubling down on personalized consumer AI : OpenAI is acquiring the CEO of Roi, an AI financial companion. Roi will sunset its service as its talent heads to OpenAI, ostensibly to help boost revenue in consumer apps. Read More