A new Stanford-led study is adding fresh weight to a growing concern in the hiring world: when companies use AI-driven assessments to screen candidates, the effects can extend far beyond the test itself—potentially shaping who gets considered, who gets rejected,…
TechCrunch Disrupt has always been more than a conference schedule—it’s a pressure valve for the startup ecosystem, a place where product bets get stress-tested in public and where investors quietly triangulate what’s about to become “obvious.” With TechCrunch Disrupt 2026…
Google’s AI-first reorganization isn’t just an internal reshuffle—it’s a bet that the next interface for the internet won’t look like a list of links. In a wide-ranging conversation recorded shortly after Google I/O, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai laid…
In a corner of the internet where people usually come to tinker, compare, and move on, a new pattern is starting to show up: some Suno users aren’t treating AI music as a novelty or a side project. They’re treating…
Hedge funds are making a bet that sounds almost too simple: if artificial intelligence is the engine, then semiconductors are the fuel system. The latest rotation in positioning—away from parts of the software stack and toward chipmakers and the broader…
The European Central Bank has issued a warning that will likely resonate far beyond the usual circles of AI investors and technology executives. In a message focused on financial stability, the ECB highlighted a specific pattern emerging in Europe’s credit…
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has always been a place where governments talk about the future of warfare. That’s part of its purpose: to anticipate new categories of weapons and decide, collectively, what rules should apply before those…
Uber’s AI spending is no longer just a question of whether the company can build smarter systems—it’s becoming a question of whether those systems can be tied to outcomes that customers actually notice. In a candid interview with Rapid Response,…
ByteDance is reportedly moving to protect one of its most strategically important assets: the people building its artificial intelligence capabilities. According to a report from the Financial Times, the TikTok parent has begun offering “special stock” to employees working in…
Artificial intelligence is having a moment that feels both inevitable and unfinished. The question “Is AI profitable yet?” has become less of a binary debate and more of a diagnostic tool—one that forces investors, executives, and engineers to define what…
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…