TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between...
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model...
Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling...
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling...
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and...
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products...
India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for...
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments
Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but...
PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether...
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023...
OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting
Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting,...
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2...
OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its...
Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more
While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers...
Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the...
Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by...
ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data
OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians. ...
Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen
The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering....
Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop
Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send...
AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and...
Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their...
ChatGPT Ads passes $1B run rate in 200 days
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200...
Why MCP servers are becoming AI’s newest attack surface
As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports...
A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips,...
Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand...
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at...
MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data
MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on...
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation...
How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the...
Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities...
Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access...
Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9...
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