Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit’s role in developing it.
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…
Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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What Your Small Business Should Be Doing Right Now to Cut Its 2026 Tax Bill
A few tax moves cost nothing today and simply need to exist by December 31. Here’s what to put in place now, while the option is still open.
‘Venture Capital Is A Trap’: This Entrepreneur Built A Billion-Dollar Idea Endorsed By Joe Rogan Without Playing By Silicon Valley’s Rules
Entrepreneur Alex Tarnava built a business selling roughly 40 million hydrogen water doses per month without taking venture capital. Now, the inventor explains why he believes VC can become a “trap.”
Family First? Here’s What Employers Need to Know Before Hiring Relatives.
Plus: 10 rules for employees who are also relatives
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Seven Seven Six.
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
What Your Small Business Should Be Doing Right Now to Cut Its 2026 Tax Bill
A few tax moves cost nothing today and simply need to exist by December 31. Here’s what to put in place now, while the option is still open.