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

I wanna live an NPC life

the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else’s story or watching life pass you by while doomscrolling on your phone. but here’s my take: the npc lifestyle is actually a very viable way to live. as an npc, you aren’t actually watching … 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

NexCOBOT discusses physical AI market hurdles and acceleration

NexCOBOT, which exhibited at the Robotics Summit & Expo, provides a range of controllers. Source: NexCOBOT Humanoid robotics and physical AI developers are not only raising billions of dollars; they’re also getting acquired by big technology companies. This has implications for industrial adoption, according toJenny Shern, general manager of NexCOBOT. For instance,Mobileye acquired Mentee Roboticsfor … Devamını oku

I Don’t Have a Smartphone

“I don’t have a smartphone,” is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants wishing that I scan a QR code to access their menu on a small screen. “I don’t have a smartphone” is, according to my experience, … Devamını oku

Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness

Chef Robotics has designed its robotic system to handle high-mix food preparation. | Source: Chef Robotics Physical AI has made remarkable strides, but most of the time, we use rigid objects to train foundation models. Food represents one of the most complex manipulation challenges in robotics, noted Chef Robotics. Every ingredient is deformable, inconsistent in … 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