If you’ve been meaning to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 but kept telling yourself you’d “wait until later,” the clock is now very much on your side—and also very much not. Early Bird pricing for Disrupt 2026 is scheduled to end…
South Korean chip startup Xcena has secured $135 million in funding at a reported $570 million valuation, placing a clear bet on a shift that many AI builders have felt but few have been able to fully solve: as models…
Ferrari’s first electric car, the Luce, has arrived with the kind of attention that usually follows a scandal or a miracle—sometimes both. Even before most people have had a chance to see it in person, the reaction has already split…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering something that sounds like a dream for anyone who’s ever stared at a dusty baseboard and thought, “I’ll do it later”—free home cleaning. The twist is that the company isn’t just paying for…
A single, “inartful” sentence from a chief executive can travel farther than any quarterly report. In the last few days, that’s exactly what has happened: remarks about “human capital” have ignited a debate that goes well beyond workplace etiquette. People…
Adobe has launched a new conversational AI image assistant called Firefly AI Assistant, and the company is pitching it as something different from the usual “type a prompt, get an image” experience. The promise isn’t just faster output—it’s a shift…
Humanoid robots are no longer confined to the glossy world of science fiction or the carefully staged demos that make them look effortless. Over the past year, they’ve started to shift into something closer to a consumer-facing reality: not necessarily…
Lucy Rigby, the newly appointed chief secretary to the Treasury, has delivered a blunt warning that the UK risks “choosing decline” if it fails to adopt artificial intelligence across public services. Speaking as Whitehall moves from early experimentation toward policy…
Glean has crossed a major revenue milestone, with annual sales now topping $300 million—an outcome the company is framing as proof that enterprise AI search can grow even as the category becomes crowded and buyers become more skeptical about AI…
Anthropic has reportedly closed a massive funding round that values the company behind Claude at roughly $965 billion, according to the latest figures cited in coverage of the deal. The headline number—$65 billion in new capital—matters for obvious reasons: it…
For most of the internet’s history, the network was optimized around a simple assumption: humans are the primary drivers of traffic. Even when requests were automated—bots, crawlers, monitoring tools—the dominant pattern was still interactive browsing: a person clicks, waits, reads,…
AI has been the loudest story in tech markets for more than a year, but the market’s volume is starting to change pitch. For a long time, investors treated artificial intelligence as a software narrative: models, platforms, and applications that…