After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother’s voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it’s now one o…

Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the …

Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite

Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam

Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round

The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Oct. 2

The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at San Francisco’s Moscone West on Oct 13-15.

The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes

Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian.  Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to […]

Judgment and AI

AI can accelerate thinking and decision-making, but it cannot replace human judgment. Asking smarter questions, challenging answers, recognising bias and applying context are essential to using AI effectively, making better decisions and maintaining tr…

He Helped Directors Imagine Their Films. Then AI Let Him Make One Himself

Robert Gaudette used generative AI to move from visualizing films for clients to making finished work, testing whether judgment can become the real product in production.

Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying ‘we’re just getting started.’ The company is now valued at $10 billion.

Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’
Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’

Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within […]