US lawmakers advanced legislation to lock President Donald Trump’s strategic Bitcoin reserve into law on Wednesday, as the House Committee on Financial Services approved the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 in a 28-21 vote.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has announced a pivotal session titled 'Hiring When AI Is a Co-Founder,' bringing together leaders from Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland to explore how AI agents are reshaping early-stage startup teams.
Bain Capital Ventures announced it has raised $1.6 billion for its 11th fund, exceeding its target, to back early-stage companies across AI infrastructure, applications, physical AI, security, science, and services.
On September 16, 2026, Google Research introduced Retrieve-for-Train (R4T), a reinforcement-learning-compiled diffusion retriever that makes query fan-out 12× to 20× faster.