Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he’s working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

Why Leaders Winning With AI Are Betting On Humans, Not Headcount

The AI efficiency playbook is failing. Discover the human-centered strategy that’s separating thriving companies from those quietly hollowing out.

Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I began…

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Save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your spot at the center of the tech ecosystem. Register here.

The vibes are off at OpenAI
The vibes are off at OpenAI

OpenAI is in a relatively precarious position. The company is and has been a funding behemoth – just over a week ago, it closed $122 billion in funding at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It’s potentially planning for an IPO later this year. ChatGPT’s longtime lead in consumer-facing AI led it to name-brand status […]

Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence

Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.

The Company Of The Future Might Fit In One Person’s Head

AI is reshaping business by replacing large teams with small, AI-powered companies. The Micro-Enterprise Model shows how one person can now build and scale a company.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country’s leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2023. The union […]

Does Tesla Really Have A Robotaxi? They Don’t Make It Easy To Find Out

Tesla has expanded their service area for rides with nobody in the vehicle. This implies they are closer to ready, but other clues suggest otherwise

Five Reasons Anthropic Kept Its Cybersecurity Breakthrough Invite-Only

Anthropic’s invite-only rollout of Project Glasswing shows how frontier AI is becoming a premium enterprise product, shaped by scarcity, safety and market strategy.