Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a … Read more

5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The clock is ticking. Book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 by September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT. What is Disrupt? TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together for three days of startup-building, fundraising, networking, product discovery, and dealmaking. … Read more

Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at Disrupt 2026

Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in artificial intelligence, genetics, and computational biology are changing what’s possible in conservation research, raising questions that extend far beyond the laboratory. If technology can help revive extinct species, should it? And … Read more