Does The Rise Of AI Mean Hudcon Is Hollywood’s Last Cinderella Story?

AI is going to have a massive impact on film and TV – just not in the way most people think.

Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Copilot’s new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Excel, and update PowerPoint decks, all in real time.

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software brain, and it’s a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops […]

Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.

Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco

StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Now’s the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.

You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze

Earlier this month, millions of OpenClaw users woke up to a sweeping mandate: The viral AI agent tool, which this year took the worldwide tech industry by storm, had been severely restricted by Anthropic. Anthropic, like other leading AI labs, was under immense pressure to lessen the strain on its systems and start turning a […]

Every AI Model Is Saying The Same Thing. That Should Terrify You.

AI systems are converging on the same answers. Here’s what that means for your business, your culture, and the $242 billion bet nobody is questioning.

AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.

Agentic AI Is Quietly Turning Video Into An Interactive System

D-ID is embedding AI agents into video to make it interactive, while companies like Higgsfield AI are building agentic video infrastructure for content generation.