San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
Waymo's scale has made it the focal point for regulators in San Francisco, and…
YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos
As YouTube's trust and safety chief Matt Halprin explained in a Creator Insider video…
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz.…
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"n general, Americans are understating the technical expertise of these Chinese teams," Hancock said.…
Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now
For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company…
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI doesn't run on code alone — it requires massive amounts of power, and…
As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
Pangram's AI image detection system promises to spot AI-generated images across AI models, unlike…
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
Co-founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, Permiso specializes in detecting…
Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds
Earlier this year, Index portfolio company Wiz completed its $32 billion sale to Alphabet.…
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
This theory points to the significant list of companies that partnered or paid for…
MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
MacPaw is currently working on its AI assistant Eney, which it unveiled last year,…
Google Wallet now lets parents set up secure balances for their kids
Google announced on Thursday that Google Wallet will now allow parents to set up…
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide recently announced that it's joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup's team members now…
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026
Building a company is hard. But building one that also designs, manufactures, and delivers…
Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach
In a post on its data leak site, which it uses to host the…
Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
After trying and failing to delay the matter, Apple on Thursday submitted its proposal…
