At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the…
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Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates |
2:38 PM PDT · September 2, 2026 The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust…
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem |
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself. On Saturday, Musk confirmed…
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps |
Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas. Microdramas are…
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a 'brazen campaign' of intellectual property theft |
In Brief Posted: 11:41 AM PDT · August 29, 2026 Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders…
At TechBBQ, Europe's AI conversations kept coming back to: Who's actually in control? |
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should…
'We're not doing 30 bets a year': Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z |
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when…
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining |
Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight…
The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy |
As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU |
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only…