Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures, where he has spent years building a reputation as an early-stage investor alongside founders and operators. The move isn’t just a change of address in the venture world—it’s a pivot in how…
Cloudflare’s latest policy is aimed at a problem that has been growing quietly for years: the way “web crawling” has blurred together multiple, very different activities—search indexing, content discovery, and increasingly, AI training and autonomous “agent” workflows. Until now, many…
AI safety has a familiar story line: researchers push the frontier, engineers harden systems, and policymakers react once the technology is already embedded in daily life. But the headline idea behind “AI safety isn’t just a lab problem—it’s a society…
Venice AI’s latest funding milestone is the kind of signal investors usually wait years to see: not just growth, but momentum that looks durable. The company has raised a $65 million Series A and, with that round, has crossed the…
Google’s push toward “agentic” AI—assistants that don’t just answer, but actually help you get things done—just took a meaningful step forward. Gemini Spark, the company’s 24/7 agentic assistant, is now available on macOS. The move matters less because it’s another…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is once again positioning itself as more than a spectacle of product demos and big-name announcements. Buried inside the event’s broader momentum is a track designed for the people who have to make the numbers work after…
Meta is reportedly exploring a move that will feel familiar to anyone who’s watched the AI infrastructure arms race from the sidelines: turn expensive compute into a revenue stream by selling it to others. According to the report circulating in…
Google’s new Home Speaker is the kind of product that only makes sense if you believe in a future where your smart home isn’t just a collection of apps and automations, but a conversational system—one that can actually help you…
University has always been sold as a gateway: to knowledge, to credentials, to networks, to better jobs. But in the last decade—especially since the pandemic and amid rapid changes in hiring—“worth it” has become a question people ask with their…
Sport has always been a contest of margins: a fraction of a second, a millimetre of technique, a breath taken at the right moment. What’s changing now is that those margins are increasingly being engineered—measured, modelled, and trained for—using technologies…
Vinton Cerf has spent a lifetime thinking about a deceptively simple question: how do you get two computers—maybe built by different companies, running different software, located on opposite sides of the planet—to reliably exchange information? The answer, of course, is…
Anthropic is preparing to bring back access to its Fable model starting July 1, according to reports that say restrictions on two of the company’s offerings—Mythos and Fable—are being lifted. For developers and enterprises that had been forced to adjust…