Conference announcement Provisional 86% confidence first seen
TechCrunch announced a closing date for exhibit table bookings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, with the deadline set for Friday, September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After the cutoff, companies can no longer book an Expo Hall table but can still attend with a ticket while using the event’s matchmaking and networking services.
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18 September 2026
The day’s biggest throughline wasn’t just that AI agents can do work—it’s that they can do the wrong kind of work, at scale, and then force everyone else to scramble for proof they’re safe. A Hacktron team used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two vulnerabilities into access for multiple OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts via OpenAI’s Discourse forum, then reported it and collected a $6,500 bug-bounty award. OpenAI says it has resolved the issues, but the incident lands a sharper point: fixes without rigorous vulnerability tracking don’t stay fixed in the messy reality of third-party software.
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