The TechCrunch Podcast

Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast. This week Amanda Silberling is here to talk about how Dungeons and Dragons creators are fighting to keep their livelihoods and Rebecca Bellan comes on to talk about how a tweet has gotten Elon Musk into legal trouble...again. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Dungeons & Dragons content creators are fighting to protect their livelihoods
• Musk stands to lose billions in trial over ‘funding secured’ tweet

More from TechCrunch

• Discord acquires Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens
• Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached
• Amazon fined by regulators for unsafe warehouse work conditions
• Boston Dynamics’ latest Atlas video demos a robot that can run, jump and now grab and throw

This week Darrell talks with Kyle Wiggers about a few interesting AI announcements from CES and Natasha Mascarenhas comes on to talk about how tech workers are handling the mass layoffs we’ve seen in the past few months. . And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Here’s a roundup of the top AI-powered products we saw at CES 2023
• Burned by layoffs, tech workers are rethinking risk

More from TechCrunch

• Sony and Honda reveal Afeela
• India set an ‘incredibly important precedent’ by banning TikTok, FCC Commissioner says
• There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it
• Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic

This week Darrell talks with Rita Liao about the great wall of porn obscuring information about protests in china. And Ron Miller comes on to recap the AWS re:invent event and his story on Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor stepping down. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Great Wall of porn obscures China protest news on Twitter
• Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce
• All of TC’s AWS re:invent converage

Other news from the week:

• Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify
• Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc
• BeReal wins ‘app of the year’ in Apple’s annual App Store Awards in 2022

This week we're bringing you a very special episode from our friends over at Equity.

To end the year, the Equity crew is bringing back their predictions episode: Alex, Natasha, Mary Ann, Theresa, Maggie, and Becca. Grace couldn't make the mic but we have a feeling she'd agree with at least 2% of our predictions, anyways.

Let's not ruin the episode, but to give you a taste, here's what topics we based our predictions on:

• Startup building and culture trends
• M&A and the return of secondaries
• The future of media and how social will shift
• Deep tech and generative AI
• And, of course, crypto

We end on an earnest note. Good luck to Alex as he embarks on parenthood, welcome to Becca, who will be joining Equity in the new year, and, of course, thank you to all of you for sticking by us during this rollercoaster of a year.

And with that, chat in 2023!

This week Darrell talked with Tim De Chant about his coverage of fusion energy and what feels like a rare hopeful story in renewable energy tech. And Jacquelyn Melinek walks us through Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes and confirmed arrest. Plus he goes over the top stories in tech from the week. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• World-record fusion experiment produced even more energy than expected
• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas
• US attorney says ‘we are not done’ charging individuals for FTX collapse

Other news from the week:

• Instagram adds text updates with new Notes feature
• OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits
• Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended