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Second day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Here's the rundown on what to expect, including the 50% discount on passes for remainder of the event.

Amazon said on Tuesday that it plans to reduce its corporate workforce by 14,000 jobs as it seeks to reduce bureaucracy, remove layers, and invest more in its AI strategy.

Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding features to the Firefly website, support for more third-party models, and the ability to generate speech and soundtracks.

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana opened up at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about the vandalism of its cars and how the company pushes back on government surveillance requests.

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana urged rival autonomous vehicle companies to be more transparent about their safety data.

Amazon could be planning to cut up to 30,000 corporate positions starting on Tuesday.

OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how its addressing them.

Fitbit’s Gemini-powered health coach is rolling out to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on Android.

Two 401(k) management unicorns, Human Interest and Guideline, are squaring off in federal court with allegations so brazen they're embarrassing.

Although Maxim was convinced that gene therapy could reverse PKD, the biggest hurdle was creating a mechanism to deliver the drugs directly to the diseased cells.

India-based Miraqules developed a nanotechnology that mimics blood clotting proteins to quickly stop heavy bleeding.

“What we really do is we took the most constrained, complex, and costly medical imaging solution in radiology, and we supplanted it with what is the most accessible, simple and affordable, which is CT,” Sean Walsh, RADiCAIT’s CEO told TechCrunch. 

The company's so-called Pathfinder software can look at almost anything — buildings, tree-lined roads, even aerial views — and quickly match it to a database and generate real-time navigation.

Large enterprises routinely buy more electricity than they use. COI Energy has a patented platform that lets them sell and share.

Apple says it will soon introduce an Apple Wallet feature to allow U.S. users to create a digital ID using their passport, which can be used at select TSA checkpoints for domestic travel.

Instagram Threads is launching “ghost posts,” a new disappearing-posts feature that lets users share updates that automatically archive after 24 hours. The ephemeral option — rolling out globally on Monday — aims to encourage more casual, low-pressure sharing.

Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, is close to raising $350 million at a $10 billion valuation.

Pinterest is testing an AI-driven collage to help users create outfits from saved Pins and personalized boards curated with AI. 

X is retiring the Twitter domain for 2FA authentication. Christopher Stanley, a security engineer at X, xAI, and SpaceX, said this move is to ensure domain trust.

These 20 companies are more than just early-stage startups — they’re the architects of what’s next. And they’ll have just six minutes on the Disrupt Stage to prove it.