TechCrunch Daily: December 1, 2025

Welcome to the first TechCrunch Daily of the last month of the year, as we swiftly approach 2026. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves — we still have plenty to cover, including this week’s big AWS re:Invent conference, which we’ll be covering and you can tune into even if you’re not on the ground in Las Vegas. We also have some big updates for the energy and autonomous driving sectors. 

How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban’s investment from a cold email 

On Monday, Clipbook, an AI-powered platform that helps companies monitor their media coverage, announced a $3 million seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital. Read More 

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research 

The semiconductor giant announced Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model for autonomous driving research at the NeurIPS AI conference in San Diego, California. The company claims this is the first vision language action model focused on autonomous driving. Read More 

AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live 

Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week. Last year’s event was largely focused on their AI efforts, including new foundation models, services tackling AI hallucinations, and new security measures. And this year is likely to follow suit, based on what Amazon has announced so far. Read More 

Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035  

Driving part of the growth is the sheer scale of planned data centers. Today, only 10% of data centers draw more than 50 megawatts of electricity, but over the next decade, the average new facility will draw well over 100 megawatts. Read More