At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets “nudification” apps, claiming that the statute’s punitive provisions leave the company with “no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine’s image-editing features in various ways.” The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, […]
Reports of problems are dropping sharply as service is restored.
Jensen Huang warns CEOs against AI vendor lock-in, arguing open-weight models help companies retain control of their data, workflows and institutional knowledge securely.
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
The popular AI platform is used by developers to share access to their AI models and demo apps.
Andon Labs’ latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
Space has become the cornerstone of our digital society and it is creating technological innovation that must be secured.

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn’t confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI’s rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier […]