Friend is back, and this time it has something to say.

CareCloud is now notifying hundreds of thousands of individuals after hackers breached one of its protected health data stores.

Leveraged public bets can unwind quickly, and for the former OpenAI researcher behind Situational Awareness, that meant selling off the fund's entire public portfolio.

Apple's latest earnings reveal a telling hedge: $11.1 billion in inventory, nearly double the $5.7 billion reported last September. That jump signals real concern, not overconfidence. Apple is stockpiling because it…

Apple's services business hit a rare snag, and the reasons are telling.

Florida wants to pull $200M from federal EV charger funds to build air taxi pads linking golf courses, luxury apartments, and airports.

Tesla just rolled its 10 millionth electric vehicle off the line, a quiet but significant marker.

The Disrupt Stage has always been where technology's biggest conversations take shape, and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is raising the bar with leaders from Amazon, Replit, and Tether set to take the spotlight.

Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems just raised another $1 billion, and that is a serious signal.

Enterprise AI is finally showing measurable returns, with the SAP Value of AI Report 2026 revealing that AI now powers nearly 30% of tasks in the average organization.

Okta's acquisition of Permiso, reportedly around $200 million, signals a clear response to a growing reality: not every identity in your cloud is human.

Cloud economics are reshaping how we think about databases, and Murat Demirbas is here to show us the way.

The Jacobian Conjecture sounds abstract, but this piece grounds it in something we can actually see.

London-based Inforcer has closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, a clear signal that smaller businesses are no longer being left behind in the AI security conversation.

Two thousand engineers.

Mark Zuckerberg says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch consumer apps, and Meta is betting on that momentum with more products on the way.

If you're juggling multiple coding agents, the chaos of scattered tasks can quickly become its own project.

Spotify is giving your daily run a new soundtrack.

Claude Design isn't just another prototype tool.

The temperature parameter in large language models often reads as a dial for creativity, but its roots run deeper into statistical physics.

The OpenAI attacker moved fast and loud against Hugging Face, but the breach was stopped.

Five months after its $100M Series A, Simile has closed a $200M round at a $2B valuation, cementing its place in the fast-moving AI unicorn club.

The FTC's lawsuit against Hims & Hers cuts to a simple expectation: when you share sensitive health details, they should stay between you and your doctor.

Shared credentials are a known risk, but at VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake made the case that fixing identity alone won't secure enterprise AI agents.

Spotify's new "User notes" feature turns a simple song into a shared memory.

Federal safety regulators just handed Zoox the final green light it needed.

Approving an open model shouldn't hinge on a tag someone typed.

Infrastructure is booming, and with it, the complexity of staying compliant.

The conversation around enterprise AI security is no longer about protecting models from attack.

A single open-source ecosystem quietly became the backbone of modern AI, turning what once felt like a specialist's game into something any curious developer can explore.

Nscale's move to acquire Anyscale signals a clear intent to own more of the AI compute stack.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is signaling it could go public within the next two to three years, and that timeline feels right for a company at its stage.

Building a context layer sounds straightforward until you try to move beyond a demo.

Netflix's new $500 million licensing deal to bring *The Walking Dead* Universe to international markets is a smart, decisive move.

Machine learning is vast, but the fundamentals still carry the weight.

AWS Lambda now lets you point deployment packages at your own S3 buckets, lifting the per-Region code storage quota from 75 GB to 300 GB by default.

Most teams assume cheaper AI agents require cutting corners on quality.

DORA's 2025 research makes one thing clear: AI amplifies whatever system it touches, so the real work is shaping the organization around it.

Microsoft is openly stepping into the ring with OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching its own homegrown AI models and a Mythos competitor to Wall Street on Wednesday.

Microsoft's fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter earnings carried a telling detail: its $3.2 billion gain from Anthropic's investment stands in sharp contrast to OpenAI's mixed results. That divergence says less about the…

The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, presented by Google for Startups, cuts through the noise to tackle what actually matters: the SaaS reckoning and the widening agent security gap.

Mark Zuckerberg sees Meta's enterprise opportunity as far bigger than selling AI agents.

Waymo's evaluation-first approach is the discipline most AI teams are missing.

Lilian Weng's move from Thinking Machines back to OpenAI, just weeks after citing health reasons for her departure, raises an eyebrow.

Winamp is betting that nostalgia can carry it back into the spotlight, this time with a Deezer-powered premium music service and a fresh all-in-one player.

Claude Opus 5 didn't just play the vending machine game; it gamed it.

Picture a bear at a campsite.

Enterprise AI agents are hitting a wall: they can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited.

Mark Zuckerberg sees a future where billions of people rely on personal AI agents, and he's betting Meta's massive infrastructure spending on that conviction.