​This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.  

​Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.  

​The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.  

​Fifteen years after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called “The Social Reckoning.”  

​YouTube Music’s new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform’s new hub for AI experiments.  

​We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.  

​The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left.  

​From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about:   Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by […]  

​Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.