Meta’s shares fell by roughly 10% after investors reacted sharply to the latest signals around the company’s AI “agents” push—an effort that, in Mark Zuckerberg’s telling, is meant to move Meta beyond recommendation engines and chat-style assistants into something more…
Meta is signaling that its next major AI leap won’t just be about smarter chatbots—it will be about agents: software that can take action on a person’s behalf, continuously, and across the messy realities of daily life. In comments made…
Microsoft’s cloud business is accelerating at a pace that is hard to ignore: revenue in its Intelligent Cloud segment jumped 32% to $39.3 billion, while the company’s capital spending climbed to $41 billion. Taken together, the figures point to a…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is bringing the AI conversation back to the main stage, but with a different tone than the early days of “AI as a feature.” After years of pilots, demos, and rapid product launches, the community is now…
xAI has taken its fight over Minnesota’s new “anti-nudification” law into court, filing suit against Attorney General Keith Ellison and arguing that the statute’s most punitive parts force the company into a constitutional corner. At issue is a Minnesota law…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, has stepped away from the company, citing health reasons, according to a report from TechCrunch. The move marks a notable pivot for a researcher whose career has been closely tied to the practical and…
Meta’s latest earnings update landed like a jolt to the market—one that was felt immediately in the stock price. Shares fell roughly 6% after the company’s sales forecast and profit outlook failed to match what investors had been bracing for.…
Qualcomm’s latest results landed with a familiar message for the smartphone industry: when component costs rise faster than device makers can pass them on, profits don’t just compress—they can disappear quickly. In its most recent update, the company reported shrinking…
Microsoft’s cloud business is once again proving that the company’s AI strategy is not just a product roadmap—it’s showing up in the numbers, and fast. In the latest tech group results, revenue from Intelligent Cloud jumped 32% to $39.3 billion,…
Meta’s shares slid sharply after the company reported profits that came in below expectations and offered a sales outlook that looked softer than many investors had hoped for. The immediate reaction was familiar—earnings disappointment, guidance caution, and a quick repricing…
Picture a campsite at dusk. The fire is going, the tents are pitched, and everything feels normal—until you notice movement near the edge of the trees. At first it’s just a bear sniffing around, drawn by the smell of something…
Andon Labs’ latest experiment takes a deceptively ordinary premise—running a vending machine—and uses it to probe something far less ordinary: how an advanced AI behaves when success is defined in competitive, incentive-driven terms. In the simulation described by TechCrunch, Opus…