Spotify’s chief has moved to calm a growing storm around AI-generated music, arguing that the next wave of generative audio should not be treated as an unregulated free-for-all. In a bid to show that “creative tools” can coexist with copyright…
The argument that AI-generated stories are “not art” has a familiar rhythm: first comes the claim that machines can’t truly create, then the counterclaim that art has always involved tools, and finally the debate about whether authorship or intention is…
Apple’s next CEO is inheriting more than a hardware roadmap. They’re inheriting an expectation—one that has quietly shifted across the tech industry from “innovation” to “AI velocity.” In the smartphone era, Apple could win by making technology feel inevitable: elegant…
Global mergers and acquisitions are entering a new phase—one where the “asset” being bought is less a product line and more the plumbing of the digital economy. Across energy, fibre networks and compute, dealmakers are increasingly treating infrastructure as strategic…
ClickUp’s reported mass layoff is being framed as another AI cost-cutting story, but the deeper signal is about how work is being redesigned—at the level of workflows, not just job descriptions. The company, now in its ninth year, is said…
In Silicon Valley, where the pace of artificial intelligence adoption can feel like a kind of weather system—arriving fast, changing daily, and leaving few places untouched—Pope Leo’s message landed with the bluntness of a hand on a steering wheel. The…
The Roman Catholic Church has entered one of the most fast-moving debates in modern technology with a document that is both unusually long and unmistakably moral in tone: Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence, reported to run to…
Pope Leo XIV’s first major encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to labs, boardrooms, or research papers. It is already embedded in hiring pipelines, customer service workflows, military planning tools, and the…
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical arrives with a title that sounds like it belongs to the age of algorithms. But as the Vatican’s message is read alongside the reporting and reactions it has already sparked, it becomes clear that the…
In the modern workplace, meetings are treated like weather: unavoidable, sometimes irritating, and rarely examined closely enough to understand why they work—or why they fail. Yet the basic mechanics of how groups talk, decide, and move forward were not invented…
Startup Battlefield 200 is entering its final stretch, with applications and nominations closing on May 27. For founders, that date isn’t just a deadline—it’s a narrow window to translate months (or years) of product building into something far more immediate:…
With just five days left before TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Early Bird window closes, the message from the event team is simple: if you’re planning to attend in San Francisco, this is the last moment to lock in the best pass…