NVIDIA’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes join Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·20d ago
You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally?
I’m so mad that I love Orion's $2,195 AI mattress pad | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·20d ago
When Orion asked if I wanted to test its $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad, I agreed purely because I thought it would be funny to write about. I mean, come on.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·20d ago
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·20d ago
Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers worldwide.
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta, Rebecca Bellan·20d ago
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses...
Final 24 hours to exhibit at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·20d ago
Exhibit table bookings close tonight, Friday, September 18, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, you cannot add your startup to the Expo Hall. Tables are limited and first come, first served.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular "AI factories" | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·21d ago
Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion.
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta·21d ago
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to advance the conversation around artificial general intelligence.
Amazon-owned Zoox's 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·21d ago
A regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis in Nevada is set to expire this month, clearing the way for the Amazon-owned company to expand its commercial fleet of custom-built robotaxis in Las...
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM could change how we all use AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Julie Bort·21d ago
If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it hasn’t yet, just a $22.25 million seed round), but because of the technical minds involved and...
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta·21d ago
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: agents can act faster, longer and at greater volume than humans can realistically...
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan·21d ago
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: it began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior...
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·21d ago
How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face...
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·21d ago
The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan·21d ago
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that...
Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·21d ago
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the UK government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s new AI...
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·21d ago
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring...
Pinterest teases a new 'Restyle' feature that lets you redesign your room with AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·21d ago
Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being able to imagine what it might be like to redesign a space or compare home decor options as...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jean Bradley, TechCrunch Events·21d ago
TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And while the main event takes over Moscone West from October 13-15, the conversation doesn’t stop when...
Apple will let EU apps use less-alarming tracking-consent screens | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·21d ago
As a result of a multi-year antitrust probe by Germany’s federal competition regulator and others, Apple has agreed to modify the requirements for apps on its platforms that ask for consent to...
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