Category AI Agents

At Disrupt 2026, startup founders will confront a new hiring reality: AI agents as teammates

At Disrupt 2026, founders will explore how AI agents are changing startup hiring, accountability and team design.

Snap’s smart glasses get HBO Max, Spotify, AI and enterprise features as the company tries to justify its $2,200 price tag.

OpenAI unveils an AI misalignment framework to report model failures faster, alongside new examples of risky behavior from internal models.

Meta may launch camera-free smart glasses called Luna, aiming to ease privacy concerns while expanding AI assistant features.

AI security experts say frontier labs need tighter containment, monitoring and logs before relying on outside audits to fix agent breakouts.

Google Home MCP lets AI agents like Claude access smart-home data and controls, raising big questions about security, privacy, and platform strategy.

Meta now lets AI agents handle much of WhatsApp Business setup, simplifying onboarding, verification and messaging workflows.

From Relay to OpenAI and Apple, the AI graveyard keeps growing as products shut down, stall or get absorbed into bigger platforms.

AI agents now have whistleblower hotlines as researchers race to stop cheating, sandbox escapes and unauthorized actions.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will explore prototype to production scaling in AI, robotics and space tech at the Real World AI Stage.