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AI Is Creating Wealth Faster Than Financial Lives Can Adapt
AI startup founders and employees are accumulating fortunes at unprecedented speed, often without the financial literacy or planning infrastructure to…
Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
Automattic's board of directors has been ousted following a dramatic boardroom collapse, sources confirm to TechCrunch. The move comes just days after…
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board
Matt Mullenweg has returned to Automattic as chairman and CEO, the company confirmed, ending a dramatic power struggle that erupted publicly over the …
An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
Anthropic faces a credibility crisis just as it approaches what insiders call a potential public market debut. A senior researcher at the AI safety co…
The Only 2 Moats That Actually Work In The AI Era
# The Only 2 Moats That Actually Work in the AI Era Speed has collapsed the traditional startup playbook. Every AI model trains on similar data. Ever…
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg will keynote TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 alongside Bruce K. Lee to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and business bu…
Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Automattic's board of directors has forced CEO and founder Matt Mullenweg to take a leave of absence, marking a dramatic escalation in internal confli…
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
John Ternus officially became Apple's CEO this week after Tim Cook stepped down from the role. Cook remains with the company as Executive Chairman, po…
Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO
Pivotal, the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft company backed by Larry Page, has lost its CEO just as the flying car sector faces intensi…
Craft’s Ilya Levtov Never Learned To Code. He Built A Software Company Anyway.
Ilya Levtov never wrote a line of code. He learned cello at Juilliard instead. Yet he built Craft, a supply chain intelligence software company that a…
From Humanities To AI: How Ali Hussain Built Fintech Tabs Into A $400M Startup
Ali Hussain's path to founding Tabs, the AI-powered fintech startup now valued at $400 million, defies the typical Silicon Valley origin story. Rather…
How A Teenage Carpenter Became The Founder Of AI Construction Startup Trunk Tools
Sarah Buchner's journey from carpenter's apprentice to AI construction startup founder defies the typical Silicon Valley origin story. The founder bui…
AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO
Fermi, the AI-focused nuclear power startup, has named Lee McIntire as its new chief executive officer. McIntire, who served as an independent board m…