Russell Brandom, Author at TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com Startup and Technology News Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:45:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cropped-cropped-favicon-gradient.png?w=32 Russell Brandom, Author at TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com 32 32 Google’s Cloud AI leads on the three frontiers of model capability https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/googles-cloud-ai-lead-on-the-three-frontiers-of-model-capability/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:18:42 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3094627 How AI agents could destroy the economy https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/how-ai-agents-could-destroy-the-economy/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:44:03 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3095567 Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/great-news-for-xai-grok-is-now-pretty-good-at-answering-questions-about-baldurs-gate/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:26:54 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3094977 For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-programs-ai-coding-tools-are-a-mixed-blessing/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3094127 Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/anthropic-releases-sonnet-4-6/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3093500 Running AI models is turning into a memory game https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/running-ai-models-is-turning-into-a-memory-game/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:44:14 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3093429 Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/16/flapping-airplanes-on-the-future-of-ai-we-want-to-try-really-radically-different-things/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3092892 xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/xai-lays-out-interplanetary-ambitions-in-public-all-hands/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:29:08 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3092296 How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/how-ai-changes-the-math-for-startups-according-to-a-microsoft-vp/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:51:37 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3091955 Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/meridian-ai-raises-17-million-to-remake-the-agentic-spreadsheet/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3091868 Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/okay-now-exactly-half-of-xais-founding-team-has-left-the-company/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:50:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3091548 This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI https://techcrunch.com/podcast/this-sequoia-backed-lab-thinks-the-brain-is-the-floor-not-the-ceiling-for-ai/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:48:29 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?post_type=tc_podcast&p=3091696 Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/maybe-ai-agents-can-be-lawyers-after-all/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:26:23 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3090494 Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize? https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/amazon-and-google-are-winning-the-ai-capex-race-but-whats-the-prize/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:43:11 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3089705 Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/elon-musk-is-getting-serious-about-orbital-data-centers/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:50:49 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3089928 Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/fundamental-raises-255-million-series-a-with-a-new-take-on-big-data-analysis/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:00:02 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3089914 OpenAI launches new macOS app for agentic coding https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/openai-launches-new-macos-app-for-agentic-coding/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:19:31 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3088770 Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/flapping-airplanes-and-the-promise-of-research-driven-ai/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:22:29 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3087787 Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/zuckerberg-teases-agentic-commerce-tools-and-major-ai-rollout-in-2026/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:16:02 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3087558 Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/modelence-raises-13-million-to-smooth-out-the-vibe-coding-stack/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=3087226