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AI Agents Are Coming to Your Team—Here's What That Means Companies like Gusto and Insight Partners are sharing their playbook for hiring AI agents as full team members at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The conversation will focus on how founders can build teams where humans and AI work
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Meta Hands Off WhatsApp Setup to AI—No Coding Required Meta just released a new WhatsApp Business server that lets AI agents—like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor—handle the tedious setup work for you. Instead of manually configuring message templates, testing workflows, and troubleshooting errors, you can now point an
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OpenAI Drops $300 Million on Camera Maker Glass Imaging OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology company, for $300 million. The startup was founded by two former Apple engineers who led development of Apple's Portrait Mode—the feature that blurs backgrounds in phone photos. The deal
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Obama Calls for Clear AI Safeguards—What This Means for Your Business Former President Barack Obama recently told Democrats that artificial intelligence needs to become a top priority, urging the party to develop a "very clear plan" for managing AI's risks and economic impacts. Obama emphasized
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AI Leaders Want to Pump the Brakes. Here's What That Could Mean for You Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman recently signaled they're ready to slow down AI development—a surprising move from two companies racing to build the most
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Y Combinator's Plan: Build More American AI Tools You Can Actually Use Y Combinator's leader Garry Tan is pushing smaller U.S. AI companies to take advanced AI models from major American labs and create simplified, lightweight versions that are easier and cheaper to use. This
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Chinese AI Companies Caught Stealing from Anthropic, Raising Questions About AI Tool Safety Anthropic released a report Thursday detailing what it calls "distillation attacks"—a technique where companies essentially copy advanced AI models by studying their outputs and rebuilding similar versions themselves. The report names Alibaba, Moonshot AI,
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Apple Watch's Always-Listening AI Features Raise Privacy Questions for Businesses Apple's latest smartwatch update includes AI features that can transcribe speech and summarize nearby conversations in real time, without storing the audio files on the device. While Apple frames this as privacy-conscious design, the capability itself
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Meta's New AI Agent Wants Your Email, Calendar, and Health Data—Should You Be Worried? Meta just launched Muse, a personal AI agent designed to manage your emails, calendars, payments, health records, and more. The company is betting big that users will trust it with their most sensitive
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AI Jargon Decoded: A Small Business Owner's Cheat Sheet The artificial intelligence world is drowning in buzzwords. From "opaque recurrence" to "hallucinations," new terminology pops up daily—and most of it sounds like science fiction. TechCrunch recently published a glossary breaking down essential AI
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Tesla's Cybercab Hits the Road—But Reality Check Coming for Self-Driving Dreams Tesla's Cybercab autonomous vehicle is now operating on public roads, marking a significant step forward for the self-driving taxi industry. However, the rollout has already encountered a snag, revealing that real-world deployment of AI-powered
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Google Gemini Gave Hikers Dangerously Bad Advice—Here's What You Need to Know A group of hikers in California had to be rescued after following meal planning advice from Google's Gemini AI chatbot. The sheriff's office reported that Gemini recommended they bring significantly less
