AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

Companies are giving employees AI tools to make them more productive, but the tools appear to be creating new problems for their managers.

Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project. With this, Google joins Amazon in trying to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI industry, where most AI apps are written by default to run on Nvidia’s chips, or GPUs.

Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns about MCP (model context protocol), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools, the company is expanding its support for the open source standard.

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode, an open source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and Cursor, said Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight, affecting 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console, where some users store the API keys, or digital passwords, they use to access AI services.

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs 

Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing.

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year, according to a report that the AI company published on Friday.

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday.

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad has seen how AI is impacting the workplace firsthand, with businesses adopting his company’s AI coding tools to develop and launch their own software. At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Thursday, Masad shared what Replit has learned about what that means for the future of work in the AI age, including how humans will still play key roles as AI agents come to work alongside them.

Amazon's Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace apps

Amazon is placing its bets on ambient computing, not apps, as the future of personal AI.

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman thinks the AI doomer narrative isn’t doing the industry any favors. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI chipmaker exec quipped that “some of the leaders in the AI world maybe shouldn’t be allowed to talk in public.”