Blackstone’s Jas Khaira joins Disrupt 2026 |

AI startups can grow at a speed that would have been difficult to imagine a generation ago. But rapid growth comes with another reality: Scaling…

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) |

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already been life-threatening to some,…

Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

This week, the White House gotnearly everymajor tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them —to sign an…

Clay’s Kareem Amin joins Disrupt 2026 |

Two years ago, most companies didn’t have a GTM engineer. Now the role is showing up across tech, with practitioners using AI and automation to…

Last 24 hours to book an exhibit table at Disrupt 2026 |

Exhibit bookings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 close in less than 24 hours. From October 13-15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at…

Less than 24 hours to apply for a Side Event at Founder Summit 2026 |

7:00 AM PDT · October 2, 2026 The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side…

Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition |

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on Wednesday that he fired VC Chris Degnan…

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation |

In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50…

A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body

Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Healthraised $700 millionto build a business around scanning your body, butit’snot the only company centering its roadmap around a new…

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B |

In Brief Posted: 11:23 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion…