AI hasn’t just changed the way startups are built; It’s unclear how they sell, protect their data and customers, and scale faster than ever. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, AI Stage returns to delve into the hottest topic in the community in recent years, brought to you by Google for Startups. This time, we’re exploring the
When Microsoft reported excellent earnings in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it included an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two largest and competing AI labs are faring. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a gain of $3.2 billion, increasing diluted
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It is one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also owning valuable stakes in the two largest artificial intelligence labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to collide as Microsoft releases blockbuster financial results. The company just reported
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince investors of his prediction for the future, in which billions of people will have their own personal AI agents within the next five years. (Let’s hope the future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents, without triggering a new wave
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running within one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity assessments, broke into its systems for more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first security incident that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “felt very visceral
For a year now, AI security testing company Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they perform as agents operating for long periods without human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment about how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has cutting-edge models
