In Silicon Valley, the pace of artificial intelligence has always been measured in releases, demos, and deployment timelines. But this week, the conversation has taken an unexpected turn—away from product roadmaps and toward something harder to quantify: human dignity, moral…
Apple’s Siri is reportedly about to change in a way that goes beyond polish. A new set of leaked renders and design mockups—circulating ahead of iOS 27—suggests Apple is preparing a more “AI-native” Siri experience, one that looks and behaves…
Apple’s Siri is reportedly preparing for its biggest visual and interaction overhaul in years, and the latest iOS 27 renders circulating from Bloomberg point to a shift that goes beyond “new icons” or “cleaner typography.” If the images are directionally…
A new wave of AI labs is trying to treat “recursive self-improvement” the way earlier generations treated “scaling”: not as a slogan, but as an engineering program. The pitch is familiar—build systems that can refine their own models, training pipelines,…
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Databricks co-founder brought the conversation back to a point that many enterprise buyers have been circling for months, but rarely say out loud in plain terms: the enterprise AI deal is no longer primarily about whether…
YouTube is quietly but clearly leaning harder into podcasts, and this latest update makes the platform feel less like a place where audio happens to live and more like a serious destination for listening. According to reports, YouTube has started…
CNN has taken its fight with AI search and summarization tools into the courtroom, filing a lawsuit against Perplexity that accuses the startup of reproducing CNN reporting in ways CNN says amount to “verbatim” copying. The complaint, filed in New…
Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, is making a bet that the next era of cars won’t be defined by screens, apps, or even the familiar physical controls drivers have relied on for decades. In a wide-ranging conversation, Bensaid argued…
Visa’s investment in Replit is being framed as a move to help power “agentic payments” for developers—but the real story is bigger than a single product category. It’s about how payments infrastructure is starting to behave less like a back-office…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is one of those events that tends to feel bigger than the sum of its sessions. It’s not just a conference where you “catch up” on what’s new in tech—it’s where product teams, investors, founders, and operators…
AI “taking jobs” is no longer a simple story about what machines can do. It has become a debate about measurement—about how we translate capabilities into labor-market outcomes, and how different research teams end up with sharply different answers to…
AI compute hunting has become one of the most competitive “platform” races in tech. For years, the default answer to “where will the next wave of AI training and inference run?” was simply: GPUs. But the last 18–24 months have…