Your Customers Are All on Their Phones. Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly?
Since mobile devices now generateover half of global web traffic, sites without responsive design risk higher bounce rates, lower search rankings and lost conversions.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
Ford Had a Pigeon Problem at Its Mexico Plant. So It Hired an Unlikely Security Guard Named ‘El Charro’ to Solve It.
A Harris’s hawk named El Charro has cut down on bad bird activity by about 80% at Ford’s Hermosillo, Mexico, plant.
Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite
Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam
Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Oct. 2
The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at San Francisco’s Moscone West on Oct 13-15.
Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
ElevenLabs’ new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages
ElevenLabs v4 can clone voices with a 10 second clip
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying ‘we’re just getting started.’ The company is now valued at $10 billion.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time
Though not without some drama along the way.
For Two Years, I Was Using AI Wrong. Fixing It Is Why My Clients Are Winning While Other Brands Fall Behind.
Premium personal brands do not need more AI content — they need AI used as a thought partner, as brand infrastructure and as a way to turn real audience data into messaging that actually lands.
Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”