In the early days of OpenAI, the public story was always about ambition: build advanced AI systems, push the frontier, and do it with a mission that sounded bigger than any single founder. But behind the scenes, the company’s trajectory…
Mira Murati’s testimony in the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial didn’t just add another chapter to a high-profile corporate dispute—it pulled the spotlight onto a question that sits at the heart of modern AI governance: when leaders talk about “safety,”…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is shaping up to be one of those rare events where the conversation doesn’t stay stuck in theory. Instead of treating M&A as something that only happens after a company has “made it,” a live session at…
If you’ve been weighing whether to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, there’s a timely reason to move from “maybe” to “yes.” TechCrunch Events has announced a limited-time promotion that lets attendees lock in 50% off a second ticket—provided you buy one…
Samsung has crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark, a milestone that arrives with unusual speed and a familiar theme: AI is not just changing software—it’s rewriting the demand curve for chips, memory, and the entire supply chain that supports modern…
Google is quietly changing the way its AI Search summaries work—moving beyond “here’s what the web says” toward “here’s what real people are saying.” In an update that will matter to anyone who has ever appended “Reddit” to a Google…
When technology changes faster than people’s lives can adjust, the question stops being whether jobs will be affected and becomes how society responds to the disruption. That is the thrust of a call from Gus O’Donnell, the former UK cabinet…
SpaceX has reportedly moved to secure additional revenue and deepen its footprint in the AI supply chain by striking a deal to rent data centre space to Anthropic, one of the best-known AI start-ups focused on building and deploying large…
DeepSeek’s fundraising story is moving at the speed that only a handful of AI companies can currently command. According to recent reporting, the startup is in talks for what would be its first major investment round, and the valuation being…
SpaceX is reportedly weighing an enormous move into semiconductor manufacturing—one that, if it materializes, would not just expand the company’s industrial footprint in Texas, but also reshape how Musk’s broader technology ambitions could be supplied over the long term. According…
Microsoft is reshaping how it organizes its workplace software, and the latest move puts Ryan Roslansky—best known as the CEO of LinkedIn—closer to the center of Microsoft’s productivity stack. According to reporting from The Verge, the Microsoft Teams organization is…
If you’ve recently watched your free disk space mysteriously shrink—without new downloads, without big Windows updates, without a fresh batch of photos or games—it’s worth looking at the one app you probably use every day: Chrome. A growing number of…