Circle just minted three-quarters of a billion in USDC on Solana while the NSA finally admits their alleged crypto backdoor was just sloppy coding all along. Plus Google's AI agents learned to feel their way through tasks and immediately doubled their performance. Travi
Conference stages used to be where software ate the world — now they're where robots and resurrected species take the mic. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is launching a Real World AI Stage focused on the intersection of digital and physical, featuring Nvidia, robotics companies, and de-extinction projects
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AI supremacy takes center stage as the US Commerce Chief claims victory on the world stage. Meanwhile privacy tech gets a major iPhone boost and Uber drivers push back against algorithmic termination without human review. The automation vs worker rights battle intensifi
The Commerce Secretary and the CEO who burns $5 billion a year just stood on the same stage to tell G20 countries that American AI is the only game worth playing.
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The hardest problem in crypto just got a lot easier to solve on the device in your pocket. World open-sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge toolkit that's been running in World ID since April, now available for any developer to use
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The infrastructure powering your ChatGPT habit is now a voting issue, and both parties are scrambling to figure out which side of the NIMBY fence wins elections.
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The smartest money in crypto just realized they're all buying the same thing, and now they're calling it strategy. Crypto VCs shifted 57% of Q2 capital to later-stage deals, calling it disciplined investing after the 2022 crash
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When the boss is an algorithm, you can't negotiate — you can only sue. Uber drivers across the UK, Netherlands, and other European countries have filed a class action lawsuit claiming the company's AI pay-setting algorithm violates data protection laws and suppresses earnings
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The AI industry's most valuable companies are discovering that building frontier models means navigating frontier geopolitics — and Anthropic just learned that lesson the expensive way.
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Google just made their AI model smarter by teaching it to think longer, and they're warning you up front that all that extra thinking is going to show up on your bill.
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Wall Street sees a humanoid boom coming, but the robots still can't learn fast enough to earn their keep. Barclays says humanoid robots are entering a "major scale-up phase" with deployments set to surge, but real-world training data remains the bottleneck
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The inventor of proof-of-work is doubling down on corporate Bitcoin hoarding, and he's using a French company most people have never heard of to do it. Adam Back invested €7.6M ($8.8M) into Capital B, a French bitcoin treasury firm, through a private placement to fund more BTC purchases
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While everyone fixates on which model scores highest on benchmarks, Anthropic just shipped the infrastructure for Claude to run your Mac while you're in a meeting.
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E.l.f. Beauty went from answering 30% of social comments to 90% — not by hiring more people, but by training an AI on years of emoji-laden brand voice.
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The company that made theft feel like the future is now selling intelligence by the minute. Napster pivots from music streaming to AI agent infrastructure, offering "penny-a-minute" compute pricing in partnership with Microsoft
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A publicly traded Japanese company just told the market that diversification is a tax on conviction. Remixpoint sold its entire altcoin portfolio on September 1, dumping ETH, SOL, XRP, and DOGE in a single session for $5.5 million and booking a $736,000 net gain
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The bar for trusting a message from a company you do business with just got higher, and that's a feature, not a bug. Amazon added scam detection to Alexa for Shopping that verifies emails, texts, and calls by comparing them against every message Amazon has ever sent you
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Coinbase just turned its own stock into a DEX product and watched traders pump $228M through it — proof that the line between TradFi equity and DeFi liquidity is blurring faster than regulators can define it.
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Trump's DOJ just sided with OpenAI against The New York Times in a copyright showdown that could reshape AI training rules. Meanwhile Tether froze 42 million dollars before authorities even asked, and Delta elevated AI to the C-suite while rivals stick with basic chatbo
The nation's largest school district just drew a line in the sand: no AI until high school, and the rationale is "cognitive surrender." New York City is banning AI use for students through eighth grade (age 13-14) in its 900,000-student public school system, with the policy taking effect next week
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The dead internet theory used to be a paranoid meme — now it's a business model for companies trying to prove you're still human.
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