Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis |

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To…

AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?

Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When…

Human Challenges to AI System Reliability and Effectiveness

Aug 19, 2026 By Stephanie Simone </span> <span itemprop=”> Video produced by Steve Nathans-Kelly In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist…

Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’ |

Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis of the 11-year-old San Francisco firm is to back founders building…

The Dangers in Replacing the Human Workforce With AI

Aug 13, 2026 By Kevin Kline </span> <span itemprop=”> Autonomous, everyday workflows; streamlined inter-team collaboration; and time given back to humans for business-focused initiatives are…

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human |

While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of…

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn’t have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform…

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face |

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in…

The Apple FaceID Veteran Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain

The co-inventor of Apple’s FaceID and Vision Pro technology has spent the last six years building a frontier artificial intelligence model that could one day…

IBM and Google Cloud Join Forces to Scale AI with Human Expertise and AI-Powered Delivery

Jun 8, 2026 IBM and Google Cloud are launching a new Google Cloud Practice, designed to help organizations more quickly scale AI into production and…