TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1
Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one...
Month: October 2026
Anthropic warns ‘AI worms’ may autonomously spread across devices like a virus
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic warned that self-replicating autonomous AI systems may start spreading across user devices without human intervention,...
SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one subscription
In Brief Posted: 6:50 AM PDT · October 13, 2026 Image Credits:X Corp. In a bid to attract more subscribers,...
Is Bitcoin kidding itself about the Lightning Network?
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc ruffled a few feathers this month with a brutally blunt assessment of the Lightning Network: Bitcoiners...
The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next...
Digital cash offers ‘cash-like privacy,’ but bank data breaches threaten users: BIS
Latest NewsPublishedOct 13, 2026BIS said that digital cash can achieve “cash-like privacy,” however, the technology isn’t yet production-ready due to...
Top Digital Health & Telemedicine Sub-Sectors Booming Through 2031
While pharmaceutical development and clinical diagnostics lay the scientific groundwork for modern medicine, the digital health and telemedicine sectors govern...
Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases
Personal AI agents are increasingly making transactions on their users’ behalf, but given the nondeterministic nature of large language models,...
Car finance compensation payments delayed until next year
The vast majority of new cars, and many second-hand ones, are bought with finance agreements. Customers pay an initial deposit...
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
Only five years into its journey, Character.AI, which lets users create AI characters and have conversations with them, has filed...