The 200 companies who will be competing for the top Startup Battlefield honors this year have been revealed! . Take a look below and see if you made the list, or know someone who did 👀

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The 200 Startup Battlefield finalists have arrived!. What comes next? Those competitors will be prepping their pitches for the big competition held at Disrupt Oct. 27 - 29 in San Francisco. And you can attend to get the firsthand chance to learn from others' pitches, network and

PR is one of the biggest black boxes for startups and one of the most misunderstood growth levers. How do you actually get covered in outlets like TechCrunch or Forbes?.When does PR make sense and when is it not?.How do you build reporter relationships before you launch?. This

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Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users,has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico.

Zuck is done. Meta $14.3B Scale AI bet looks like a flop, Meta researchers say its data is low quality and prefer Surge/Mercor. > Meta poured $14.3B into Scale AI, bringing CEO Wang and execs to run MSL .> Ex-Scale SVP Ruben Mayer quit Meta after 2 months .> Mayer was left

Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI | TechCrunch

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says. …list of 2025 tech layoffs. - Tech Layoff Tracker . How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce?

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.

The U.K. recently started enforcing new age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on traffic to porn sites.

Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models.

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Players got laid over high scores. Memes exploded. People smashed phones in rage. Parents complained their kids couldn’t stop playing. One journalist even called it “the heroin of mobile games”. Even TechCrunch, not exactly known for moral panics, compared it to illicit drugs.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson appears to be pursuing conservative complaints over Gmail's spam filters.

Leaders from Artisan, Lattice, and Firecrawl will be digging into the new wave of startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 27-29 in SF. Register here.