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Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now.

Our current ticket pricing window for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends next Friday, Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.…

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking

Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and,…

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam…

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production…

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture…

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

Anthropic has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments,…

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

Military aircraft were already in the air this spring when U.S. officials made an alarming discovery: The…

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said…

Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review

Generative AI inference is uniquely hard: models are tens to hundreds of gigabytes, latency requirements are…

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it…

Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then…

Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This…

Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario…

Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario…

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Open-weight models are changing the economics of building and deploying AI at scale. Rapid gains in…

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to…

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…

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…