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At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far

December 01, 2025

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At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far: Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. Read More

Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information: E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea. Read More

'Avatar' director James Cameron says generative AI is 'horrifying': James Cameron's movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI. Read More

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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation: The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures. Read More

New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing: Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." Read More

New report examines how David Sacks might profit from Trump administration role: David Sacks' role as President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a "nothing burger." Read More

ChatGPT launched three years ago today: It's no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech. Read More

Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works -- now it wants to make it boring: CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn't "in the space industry; we're in-space industry," he said. Space is "just another place to ship to." Read More

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Behind the scenes of drone food delivery in Finland: TechCrunch went behind the scenes of a three-party partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna, Doordash-owned food delivery platform Wolt, and food startup Huuva. Read More

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November 30, 2025

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New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing

Airbus orders software fix to thousands of planes due to solar radiation risk: The company said it's taking action because "analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls." Read More

Black Friday sets online spending record of $11.8B, Adobe says: American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites. Read More

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No, you can't get your AI to 'admit' to being sexist, but it probably is anyway: Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say. Read More

VC Kara Nortman bet early on women's sports, and now she's creating the market: As women's sports enters what feels like a sustained boom period -- the Golden State Valkyries just played their first WNBA next season, the NWSL is expanding, media rights deals are growing -- Nortman remains cautiously optimistic about whether this moment will prove different from past surges in interest. Read More

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