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AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft

Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy. When NASA sends spacecraft to…

Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda

Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Put your employees in an autonomous…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage

Robots that walk, talk, dance, and perform backflips make great videos. But can they close the blinds? Help…

Exhibit tables added: One last chance to showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Exhibitor bookings are back open, but only through September 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you missed the first…

4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Four days. That’s how long you have left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass before…

Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind

During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his…

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction

Frontier AI labs are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving artificial intelligence,…

Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again

When British neocloud Nscale goes public, it will test public investors’ appetite for a stock whose revenue…

Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them

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Jev Is Not Another Chatbot: Why TypeSafe’s System One Model Could Become a New Software Primitive

What Jev is, how it works, why developers are suddenly building with it, where it fits beside LLMs, and 10…

MCP Security: Trust Boundaries, the Lethal Trifecta, and a Practical Scorecard

A connector can answer your question and expose your data in the same workflow. Here is how to assess what it…

Meta Muse: I’ve Never Been So Excited and So Depressed to Be a Builder

Saaspocalypse is destroying one-trick ponies. How Meta Muse is swallowing personal productivity apps and what…

To Code is Human: Why AI Can’t Automate the Soul of Engineering

What Henry Petroski’s Lessons on Failure, Foresight, and Revision Teach Us About Engineering in the Age…

The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping

While Silicon Valley is spending billions to make AI agents shop for us, the man who pioneered Apple’s…

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in…

Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

With five days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, each day we will list a reason…

Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

In Brief Posted: 10:55 AM PDT · September 21, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto (opens in a new…

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete

In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than…

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

What does one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture firms think founders are getting wrong? At…

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Getting people to try your first product is one challenge. Changing a product that billions of people already…

Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

For founders, Startup Battlefield 200 is one of the biggest moments of their careers. For everyone else in…

The current balance of power in open models

I was recently invited to brief a group of Congressional members and staff on the state of open-weight models…

The AI models that cheat the most, according to new CAIS benchmark

Stefan_Alfonso/iStock/Getty Images Plus ZDNET’s key takeaway The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) created…