Uber gives more than 30,000 staff OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s office-task agent, to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, OpenAI said. It connects to Gmail, Drive and Slack and runs…
Leidos lands $95M contract to automate Pentagon logistics with AI
Leidos has won a $95M, five-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to add AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system that tracks more than 80 million item…
Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says
The investment will provide a much needed financial boost as the company seeks to cut costs and lift its stock price.
Nvidia launches Minerva to catch failing parts in giant AI data centres
Nvidia has launched Minerva, AI operations software that combines data from GPUs, networks, storage and workloads to spot failing parts in large AI data centres early. It groups a…
SpaceX signs up Apollo and Nvidia for a new Grok partner network
SpaceX has launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies that deploy or build on Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and more than 130 firms joi…
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
Victoria McClune is challenging how the AI industry understands its users
Victoria McClune’s career has followed the evolution of digital technology, from interactive children’s books on the first iPads to artificial intelligence systems reshaping how p…
Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M
Kevin Weil, who led OpenAI for Science, has launched Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed, valuing it at $865M, Bloomberg reported. It is building an automated lab in the US…
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements
Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.
Tesla is prepping a Cybercab onslaught
The company is looking to roll the gold two-seater robotaxis out to other U.S. cities this year, even as it goes mum on the number of paid rides.
Zurich startup Enact raises $30M to give robots a sense of touch
Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and t…
Spotify confirms Family Plan crackdown, but calls it a ‘routine improvement’
Spotify told investors its roll out of QR code verification to ensure Family Plan members live in the same household is not a "crackdown," just a routine improvement.
Universal Music Group licenses songs to AI gaming music service TYGER
Universal Music Group (UMG) will license music from its artists and songwriters to TYGER. The service uses AI to make songs follow the action in a video game as people play. The t…
Investors break down how founders can raise a Series A today
Raising a Series A these days isn't so simple — top investors break down what founders need to know now.
Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
Fusion startup Helion is developing new semiconductors that could double output of its power plants
Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.
Meta reports $825B in future lease and contract commitments
Meta has signed up to about $825bn in future leases and contracts, most of them for the data centres and computing power behind its AI push. The figures are in its quarterly filin…
Developer platform Railway urges ‘all users’ to revoke secret keys after cyberattack
The vibe-coding platform said all of its customers should revoke and rotate their private keys, after hackers were able to decrypt some customer secrets.
Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
1Password lets AI agents sign in for users without seeing their passwords
1Password has launched 1Password for Agents, a platform that lets personal AI agents sign in to accounts on a person’s behalf without ever seeing the password. Agents from Meta, O…
Xona raises $250M at a $2.45B valuation to build a rival to GPS
Xona, a California startup building a satellite navigation network in low Earth orbit, has raised $250 million at a $2.45 billion valuation. Steve Jurvetson’s Future Ventures led …
Microsoft says China-aligned hackers used AI agents in ConnectWise attack
Microsoft says a China-aligned hacking group used AI agents to breach ConnectWise’s Cloud Backup service, opening a route into customers’ Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft Threat …
Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.