AI goes enterprise, AltStore raises $6M, and Tesla's FSD investigation

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it's rolling out Anthropic's Claude to all 500,000 employees. On the very same day, the Australian government forced Deloitte to refund a contract because their AI-generated report was riddled with fake citations. It's a perfect snapshot of where we are: companies racing to adopt AI tools before they've figured out how to use them responsibly. On this episode of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into the messy reality of AI in the workplace, plus funding news and regulatory drama across tech and transportation. Listen to the full episode to hear more news from the week, including: AltStore's $6 million raise and its plan to integrate with the Fediverse, making app updates part of your social feed Base Power's massive $1 billion Series C to deploy home batteries across Texas and beyond NHTSA's investigation into Tesla FSD after 50+ traffic violations, plus the new "cheaper" models that strip out Autopilot and basic features Zendesk's claim that its new AI agents can handle 80% of customer service tickets autonomously, and what happens in the other 20% Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a paid ad by Fidelity Private Shares.
0:03.2	A messy or missing cap table might not just slow you down.
0:05.8	It could cost you your next fundraising round.
0:08.4	Hello and welcome to Equity TechCrunch's podcast about the business of startups.
0:13.7	Today is Friday, October 10th.
0:16.6	And I'm Kirsten Koresk, transportation editor here at TechCrunch.
0:19.5	And I'm joined by weekend editor Anthony Haugh and new little swapout senior reporter,
0:26.1	Sean O'Kane.
0:26.9	Welcome you guys.
0:28.7	And Anthony, I have a question for you.
0:33.0	I've always thought about waffles as a breakfast food.
0:36.0	But it's something more now, isn't it?
0:37.7	It is. It's become a pretty big symbol on Blue Sky. And I mean, this is something I wrote about
0:43.4	over the weekend, partly because I was just seeing it and kind of mystified about it. And I'm not
0:48.9	going to go into all the details because that would take like 30 minutes or more. But the gist of it is that,
0:55.3	you know, Jay Graber, the CEO of Blue Sky, did a post about Waffles, kind of a joking post,
1:01.0	but also about kind of just the social dynamics on Blue Sky. And then somebody asked her, hey,
1:07.4	have you banned this user Jesse Single yet, which is like a whole kind of thing on Blue Sky,
1:12.4	to which she responded Waffles.
1:14.4	And then things kind of spiraled from there to the point where people were kind of attacking
1:19.0	her on Blue Sky.
1:20.7	And then she was kind of responding in a pretty combative way.
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