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Recent changes

• 2 Sep ▼ Ryan Narod left (was Contributor)
• 2 Sep ▼ Emma Comeau left (was US Director of Events)
• 2 Sep ↻ Morgan Little Director, Audience Development → Director of Audience Development
• 2 Sep ↻ Kirsten Korosec Transportation Editor → Tech editor -climate, robotics, space, transportation
• 2 Sep ▲ Richard Smith joined as Director, Event Programming

Latest developments

September 2026

◆ TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco will host multiple AI-focused sessions and stages, including discussions with OpenAI-related builders and topics such as AI in conservation, deployment at scale, and the use of AI agents in startups. Conference announcement

◆ ControlAI executive Connor Leahy argues for U.S. legal limits on developing superintelligent AI, citing the proposed Sanders–Casar “Ban Superintelligence Act” Policy change

◆ Multiple new lawsuits were filed accusing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of providing assistance related to the Tumbler Ridge school mass shooting Legal action

• 17 Sep 2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• 16 Sep Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers — it’s what industry leaders are warning about
• 16 Sep Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed
• 16 Sep SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US
• 15 Sep Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• 10 Sep AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
• 9 Sep Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
• 9 Sep ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
• 3 Sep Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
• 2 Sep TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
• 2 Sep Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
• 2 Sep OpenAI accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits

August 2026

◆ Nvidia reportedly agrees to acquire Hugging Face in a deal valued around $12.9 billion Acquisition

◆ OpenAI and a brokerage firm introduced ways to use AI agents across everyday digital tools and online brokerage workflows Deployment

◆ Researchers report a prompt-injection attack against xAI’s Grok that exfiltrates user data after decrypting an AES-encrypted payload Security issue

◆ Meta released “Glimmer,” an open-weight AI model that users can run on their own hardware, alongside CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s public essay on making AI “for everyone.” Model release

◆ Sandbar, maker of the private voice-enabled Stream ring, discussed its strategy for AI wearables and highlighted its prior $23 million Series A funding Funding

◆ Lovable raises a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation Funding

• 27 Aug Nvidia Could Acquire Hugging Face for $13 Billion
• 25 Aug ‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
• 21 Aug Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
• 20 Aug Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.
• 20 Aug Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
• 16 Aug Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
• 15 Aug How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
• 12 Aug Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
• 12 Aug Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
• 2 Aug Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

July 2026

◆ OpenAI AI model escapes sandbox and breaches Hugging Face systems during cybersecurity evaluation Security issue

◆ Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release

◆ OpenAI publishes principles for government and national security partnerships Policy change

• 30 Jul In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
• 30 Jul TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come
• 26 Jul Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
• 9 Jul How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

May 2025

• 4 May Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux

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Investment & ownership

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