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…
YouTube is taking another step toward making recommendations feel less like a one-size-fits-all algorithm and more like a conversation. The platform is rolling out an AI feature that lets you generate a custom video feed by describing what you want…
Vertu has never been shy about selling luxury as a form of technology. But with its latest foldable, the company is trying something more specific than “premium hardware”: it’s pitching a device as an executive operating layer for AI-agent workflows—an…
There’s a particular kind of fatigue that comes from living in a world where threats are always present, even when they’re not always visible. It shows up in the way people talk about danger—sometimes with bravado, sometimes with dread, often…
AI is moving faster than the institutions built to hold power accountable. That mismatch—between rapid deployment and slow, deliberative governance—is increasingly being described as an “accountability loophole.” The phrase captures a specific problem: when advanced systems are developed, sold, integrated,…
Kirkland & Ellis is preparing to spend roughly $500 million building its own artificial intelligence technology platform—an investment that signals a shift in how the biggest law firms think about AI. Rather than treating AI as a set of external…
Chip stocks are charging higher again, and this time the momentum is being tied directly to AI demand rather than to a single product cycle or a narrow set of chip launches. In 2026, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has climbed…
Google’s AI can’t spell “Google.” That’s the kind of sentence that sounds like a joke—until it shows up in screenshots, user reports, and the kind of short, sharp examples that spread faster than any careful explanation. But the real story…