Chris Hohn’s TCI Fund Management has dramatically reduced its exposure to Microsoft, cutting its stake from roughly 10% to about 1%—a move that, while framed as a portfolio decision, reads like a warning shot aimed at the market’s comfort with…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is fast approaching, and with it comes the familiar scramble: founders trying to line up meetings, teams mapping out which sessions are worth the travel time, and investors looking for the signal inside a sea of announcements.…
In the AI industry, leadership transitions are supposed to be the calm part of the story. Boards plan them, executives rehearse them, and investors are given a narrative that feels inevitable in hindsight: a successor is identified, a handoff is…
AI companies love to talk about “automation” as if it’s a clean switch: flip it, and the work disappears. In practice, adoption rarely feels like that. It feels like a backlog you can’t see until it becomes urgent, a chain…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative add-on in finance. It is showing up in customer service queues, fraud models, credit decisioning, trading research, compliance monitoring and even internal “copilot” tools that draft emails and summarize documents. Yet the more…
Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude family of AI models, is reportedly in early discussions that could value the company at nearly $1 trillion—an inflection point that would not only reshape its own fundraising trajectory, but also tighten the competitive…
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are no longer just selling software, subscriptions, and cloud services. They are building the physical world that makes modern AI possible—and doing it at a pace that is reshaping how investors think about cash. Across the…
OpenAI has introduced a new set of voice intelligence capabilities in its API, aiming to make it easier for developers to build applications that don’t just transcribe speech, but actually understand what’s being said and respond in a way that…
Pit is emerging from Stockholm with the kind of pedigree that tends to attract attention before a product is even fully understood. The company, an AI startup founded by former leaders behind European scooter operator Voi, has raised a $16…
OpenAI is rolling out a new safety feature for ChatGPT that’s designed to kick in when a conversation suggests a user may be at risk of self-harm. The update, reported as a “Trusted Contact” safeguard, reflects a broader shift in…
Perplexity has taken another step toward making AI agents feel less like a novelty and more like a daily tool. With the release of Perplexity’s Personal Computer for Mac, the company is opening up its agent experience to everyone on…
The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 didn’t just change the leadership of OpenAI—it exposed, in real time, how fragile trust can be inside a company where decisions move faster than consensus. Sam Altman’s abrupt ouster as CEO became one…