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TechCrunch follows technology businesses through the choices founders make and the consequences of emerging products. The selection combines the Equity Podcast, Build Mode conversations and shorter…
TechCrunch follows technology businesses through the choices founders make and the consequences of emerging products. The selection combines the Equity Podcast, Build Mode conversations and shorter pieces about AI, digital identity and financing. It is well suited to viewers interested in startups as operating businesses: how they find money, develop an offering and respond when new technology changes what customers or competitors can do.
Funding is approached from several angles. A conversation with Kickstarter's Everette Taylor examines the case for crowdfunding before venture capital, while another episode asks whether that route could replace an initial funding round. A founder interview with Ashley Tyrner-Dolce explores building a business through bootstrapping and eventually selling it. These subjects make financing a matter of choices and trade-offs rather than simply a headline about the size of a deal.
AI coverage includes a reporter's digital twin, questions about trusting Meta with one's digital life and discussion of AI's role on both sides of hacking and defence. The material moves between demonstrations of something newly possible and questions about what using it means. Equity episodes also take up the language surrounding AI and the funding of technology businesses.
The result is a channel where a product experiment can sit beside a founder's account or a discussion of investment. Entrepreneurs can find different ways to think about raising money and building a company, while technology followers can examine the commercial and personal questions behind new tools. The range of formats makes it possible to follow either the business story or the implications of a particular product.
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Is your website vulnerable? Inside PHP’s “Black October” | Equity Podcast
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, the open source language behind roughly 70% of…
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, the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites, including those built on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento. The holes date back more than a decade, and now that a fix is out, companies are scrambling to patch their systems as attackers try to exploit the them.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha dig into why AI-powered bug hunting could make this the first of many internet-wide scares, what Elon Musk’s careful choreography says about where a Tesla-SpaceX merger is headed, and more of the week’s headlines.
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: PHP security crisis, Tesla and SpaceX, and Otter.ai's $320M raise
0:55 – TechCrunch Disrupt recap and the Elizabeth Holmes documentary
2:50 – Critical PHP vulnerabilities threaten millions of websites
8:01 – AI's role in discovering and exploiting cybersecurity flaws
13:09 – The future of AI-powered cybersecurity
17:07 – Are Tesla and SpaceX finally merging?
19:10 – Elon Musk's influence over both companies' boards
22:50 – Why a Tesla-SpaceX merger could make financial sense
25:27 – Musk's plan to give American children SpaceX shares
27:08 – Character.AI's bankruptcy and Disney's involvement
30:21 – OpenAI acquires biotech startup Orchestra Bio
33:00 – Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst
35:30 – Outro
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