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Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on…
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Meta’s new AI assistant app, Muse, is now available on Mac. On the Mac, Muse can interact with your files,…
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.…
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used…
The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Exhibit table bookings close tonight, Friday, September 18, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, you cannot add your…
What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups
By Aaron Golbin Ten years ago, a seed-stage startup needed a product, a team and a pitch deck to raise…
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its…
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to advance the…
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it…
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
In Brief Posted: 3:14 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 Image Credits:Archer Aviation Lucas Ropek The FAA’s plan…
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem:…
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions…
AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders
In Somerset, New York, a fire broke out in one unfinished building of a data centre under construction in…
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are…
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft…
Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K.…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday,…
Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being…
Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is moving up the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip to the first quarter of 2027, as…
Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs
Technology companies routinely spend heavily to acquire customers who may not generate enough revenue to…
2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Your last chance to get your startup on the Expo Hall floor is almost here. Book your exhibit table at…
Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls
Text-based AI assistants are a hot market, with Instinct, Wajo, Town, Ollie, and Meta’s Muse agent, which…
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
Grid software unicorn Emerald AI has formed a coalition with Google and Nvidia that will use the startup’s…