A familiar Musk word is back, and this time it comes with a hefty deposit and no firm delivery date…
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · October 18, 2026 Image Credits:Character.AI After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! As I wrapped my TechCrunch Disrupt interview with Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe, I…
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Ryan Austin is founder and CEO of Cognota, a purpose-built operating system for LearnOps, Talent Ops, and HR Ops. gettyEvery enterprise software category eventually gets an operating system—one platform that becomes the default place work happens, with everything else plugging into it. Salesforce did it for sales. Workday did it for HR records. The open…
Pritam Debnath is the Global Head of AI & Data Platforms at Sysco, leading enterprise AI transformation at scale. gettyThe next enterprise AI challenge will not be building more agents. It will be operating them economically at scale. Agentic AI changes the economics of technology because one user request is no longer necessarily one transaction.…
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Dr. Sariki Abungwo, Founder of Blesatech. Helping small business owners to start and grow their businesses by leveraging marketing systems. gettyPlenty of businesses have no shortage of interest. Their content gets attention, their inbox has inquiries and discovery calls get booked. On paper, demand exists. And yet revenue doesn’t move the way the interest suggests…
Mark Wahlberg has started companies of his own and backed plenty of others. But he says the gym he’s opening in December has him more excited than anything he’s done in his entire career. It also goes after a corner of the market where venture money keeps flowing: pricey, diagnostics-heavy wellness. Speaking with us at…
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics…





