The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Join more than 10,000 founders, investors, startup operators, and technology leaders at Moscone Center in San Francisco on October 13-15.Register today and savebefore our next ticket price increase. Without further ado, here’s your first look at the Builders Stage agenda, withmore speakersand sessions to be announced as we get closer to the event. WithShan Shan, Investment Manager, Baillie Gifford; andYuri Sagalov, Managing Director at General … Devamını oku

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

On this stage, we’ll be focusing on that intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two, as autonomous hardware goes beyond self-driving cars and enters public spaces, battlefields, our homes, and even potentially helps extinct species reenter Earth. It’s a packed lineup featuring speakers … Devamını oku

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, theThe Information reportedon Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has AI safety … Devamını oku

US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

“The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally… As such, it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence,’” the brief reads, referencingan executive orderthat President Donald … Devamını oku

We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real. A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of … Devamını oku

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real. A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of … Devamını oku

India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio is opening its cloud PC service to any internet user in India, positioning it as a way to turn aging computers into AI-ready machines without hardware upgrades. On Wednesday, Reliance Jio expanded JioPC,originally launchedin July 2025, beyond its own broadband subscribers, making the service available as a standalone subscription to users … Devamını oku