Peter Thiel’s latest bet is aimed at a problem that has become almost as urgent as the AI models themselves: where to find enough reliable, scalable power to run the compute. In a move that signals both confidence and impatience…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is already shaping up to be one of those events where the real value isn’t just the stage programming—it’s the density of people you can meet in a short window. And this week, TechCrunch Events is leaning…
A new $1.5 billion joint venture backed by major Wall Street firms is set to push Anthropic’s technology deeper into the day-to-day machinery of investing—moving beyond the familiar pattern of AI pilots and proof-of-concepts toward something closer to operational infrastructure.…
Wall Street’s AI build-out is moving into a new phase: less about proving that models can work, and more about figuring out how to make them reliably useful inside real investment workflows. A fresh consulting company—created specifically to help financial…
The week’s most interesting “what’s really happening?” stories don’t all live in the same universe. One is about how quickly excitement can outrun evidence when a new technology arrives. Another is about how private credit markets price risk when the…
AI backlash isn’t behaving like a normal product adoption curve. If it were just a matter of awareness or branding, you’d expect sentiment to improve as people get more familiar with the tools. Instead, the pattern looks stranger: usage is…
StrictlyVC San Francisco is arriving sooner than most people think. The first StrictlyVC of 2026 is set to kick off in the Bay Area on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, bringing together venture capitalists and founders for…
On a foggy stretch of San Francisco’s retail corridor, Andon Market has become a kind of live experiment—part boutique, part software demo, and part stress test for the idea that an artificial intelligence agent can do more than recommend products.…
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to offer voluntary redundancy to a significant slice of its U.S. workforce for the first time, according to coverage that frames the move as both a cost-management measure and a strategic pivot tied to artificial intelligence…
Anthropic’s latest move is less about making Claude sound smarter and more about making it do work—quietly, directly, and inside the messiness of real files. With Cowork, the company is introducing a desktop AI agent capability that extends the “agentic”…
Anthropic has taken a decisive step toward making AI agents feel less like chatbots and more like digital coworkers. With Cowork, the company’s new Claude Desktop capability, users can delegate tasks that involve their own files—without writing prompts like a…
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI has moved into a phase that feels less like a clean legal narrative and more like an evidentiary storm—one built from the kinds of artifacts that rarely sit neatly inside courtroom storytelling. Over the past…