Equity

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Recent Episodes

1. Anthropic’s S-1 is here. Does AI pay off?

   Oct 30, 2026

   Senior TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling joins the Equity hosts to discuss her article on whether AI executives are out of touch with ordinary consumers. The conversation focuses on Marissa Mayer's backlash over her Dazzle AI assistant and on examples from Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Whitney Wolfe Herd. The episode also covers Anthropic's S-1 filing, including its revenue growth, losses, enterprise focus, and risk factors.

2. The 'Vulnpocalypse' is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

   Oct 28, 2026

   Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Exposure Management & AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, describes Wiz's role in the coordinated response to two critical PHP bugs that affected roughly 70% of websites. He discusses how the disclosure timeline leaked and was accelerated, how Wiz's AI-driven research harness Atlas helped find the bugs, and why the bugs stayed hidden for more than a decade. The conversation also covers who remains unpatched, how small businesses should respond, and how early-stage startups should think about security.

3. The PHP Armageddon reminds us that the internet is held together by glue and dreams

   Oct 23, 2026

   This TechCrunch Equity episode, hosted by Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and Anthony Ha, covers a week of tech news. The main topic is a PHP security crisis in which AI tools found long-standing flaws in the open source language that underpins a large share of websites. The hosts also discuss Tesla and SpaceX merger speculation, Elon Musk's pledge to give children SpaceX shares, Character.AI's bankruptcy and Disney deal, OpenAI's acquisition of Orchestra Bio, and Otter's $320 million raise.

4. Meta and Instinct are racing to build your AI assistant. Wabi has a different idea.

   Oct 22, 2026

   Eugenia Kuyda, founder of AI companion app Replika, discusses the launch of Wabi, a personal AI agent that organizes users' lives into separate chat threads, lets people invite others into those threads, and builds mini apps on demand. She explains why she thinks AI agents should bring people together rather than isolate users, why single-threaded chats degrade over time, and how Wabi handles compute costs, free access, and permissions for shared chats. The conversation also covers the future role of phones versus hardware and what it takes to earn users' trust when they connect email and other personal data.

5. Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

   Oct 16, 2026

   Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable VC, discusses why she left NVIDIA, where she had spent seven years in product marketing for robotics and AI platforms, to start an early-stage firm. She describes physical AI as extending beyond robots to materials science and life sciences, and says robotics is in a "Lego era" where foundational building blocks are still being rebuilt. The conversation also covers conscious automation, the bottlenecks facing founders, and her view that a VC should act as a founder's moat through distribution and networking.

6. Who’s the sheriff in AI’s wild west? (Equity Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026)

   Oct 14, 2026

   The Equity hosts (Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane) recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and discuss the security risks of AI agents acting outside their intended bounds. Topics include Anthropic's rogue-agent incidents, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's call for an AI "emergency brake," and whether engineering fixes, regulation, or both are needed. They also cover the startup funding wave around agent security, the role of independent certification, and whether large AI companies will acquire these startups.

7. Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

   Oct 9, 2026

   This Equity episode from TechCrunch has no external guest. Hosts Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, and Rebecca Bellan discuss Amazon's move to stop using NDAs in data center negotiations with local governments and whether it will ease community backlash against AI infrastructure. They also cover personal AI agent startups such as Ghost, Tab, Underdog, and Hark, along with Lambda's reported funding round and Uber's roughly $2.3 billion acquisition of ezCater.

8. After selling to P&G and Lululemon, these founders are building for life beyond the screen

   Oct 7, 2026

   Two repeat founders discuss their pivots away from digital-first consumer companies toward physical, community-oriented products. Tristan Walker, who sold Bevel to Procter & Gamble, now runs Heirloom, a leathercraft trade school acquiring and scaling fine handcraft education. Brynn Putnam, who sold Mirror to Lululemon, is building Board, a touchscreen console that blends board games and video games for shared in-person play. Both founders explain their shift from "me-focused" technology to "together tech," the challenges of scaling hardware and community-driven products, and how AI can enhance rather than replace human skill and connection.

9. Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

   Oct 2, 2026

   In this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane discuss the White House AI safety summit where major tech CEOs signed a non-binding pledge, President Trump's executive order rebranding AI as "super intelligence," and the mixed signals from consumer AI product launches by Meta and OpenAI. The hosts also analyze the cooling IPO market—examining Anthropic's leaked S-1 showing $42 billion in losses, OpenAI's return to private funding, and Oura pulling its IPO—alongside three notable startup deals: Quartermaster's $140M Series B for maritime sensors, Atomic's supply-chain AI raising from ex-Tesla founders, and Charter Space's $5M round for satellite insurance.

10. A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body

    Sep 30, 2026

    Farooq Abbasi, founder and general partner of Preface Ventures, discusses his investment in Neko Health, the preventative healthcare startup backed by Spotify founder Daniel Ek that raised $700 million to offer full-body health scans and bloodwork for $500. The conversation explores why preventative care adoption is so low in the US, how Neko Health keeps costs down through vertical integration, and the broader landscape of VC-backed health startups, including concerns about overfunded consumer health companies that lack comprehensive patient outcomes focus.