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El Pollo Loco will open its first New York City restaurant next year as the California chain looks to become a national player. El Pollo Loco has closed three development agreements for a total of 15 restaurants in the New York area over the next five years, the company announced

TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close. Our Side Events program brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together acro

Apple is set to launch Apple Pay in India later Tuesday with Axis Bank as its initial banking partner, TechCrunch has learned, bringing its payments service to the world’s most populous country after years on the sidelines of a market dominated by UPI. The initial rollout will be

(Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to its weakest level in 16 months as expectations that the Federal Reserve will further boost interest rates supported the US dollar. The common currency dropped as much as 0.5% to $1.1312 on Tuesday, the lowest since May 2025. It was set for its wors

When Nvidia announced on Monday a new consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, there was one name notably missing: OpenAI. While OpenAI wasn’t the only Big Tech player that didn’t sign on — Amazon, Google, and Apple haven’t joined either — it wa

For two decades, largely in service to the International Space Station, NASA has sought to foster an “economy” in low-Earth orbit. Twenty years ago, with a program to develop private spacecraft for cargo delivery to the space station, NASA sought to “stimulate efforts within the

Diversified conglomerate ITC saw its shares continue to crash on Dalal Street in 2026, hitting multi-year lows as investors appeared to be worried that elevated commodity prices and input costs could hit the company's margins in the near term, with analysts expecting more price h

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will extend the deadline for federal student loan borrowers to get a reduction of 1 percentage point on their interest rate. Previously, the U.S. Department of Education said borrowers had until the end of the day on Wednesday

The Nifty 50 witnessed one of its sharpest declines in the September series in recent years, registering a fall of 1,618 points or 6.6%. The Nifty opened with a gap down and slipped to an intraday low of 22,569.65 within the first hour of trade. However, the index recovered from

Disney is laying off around 300 employees in its latest round of job cuts since CEO Josh D'Amaro took the helm earlier this year, according to a person familiar with the matter. The majority of the cuts were to human resources and technology roles, said the person, who spoke on t

Man City guilty of 'sham' contracts and misleading accounts - Published Manchester City arranged "sham contracts" with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m, the Premier League says. The League confirmed that City have b

Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed “non-public files” from his country’s Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little light on details. Today, we’re getting new inf

Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said Tuesday he is "not overly concerned" about a new software glitch that's further delaying the certification of Boeing's 737 Max 10, which is already years behind schedule. Alaska earlier Tuesday unveiled a massive cabin overhaul with more pre

AI - AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AIAI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD - AWS

Fury & Joshua in London for news conference as doubts ease - Published Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have both arrived in London before Wednesday's launch news conference for their fight. It appears the all-British heavyweight contest - more than a decade in the making - remains

The News President Donald Trump plans to travel the battleground map to stump for Senate Republicans — where he’s wanted — in the homestretch of the election. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles delivered that message to a group of Republican senators on Monday evening, accord

OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an office software suite like Microsoft’s. At its DevDay developer conference in San

Burnham vows to end existing pension triple lock in 2030 to help fund care - Published Andy Burnham has set out his plan to transform Britain, including by ending the existing state pension triple lock from 2030 to help fund a new national care service. In his first Labour Party

Prince William and Catherine's surprise visit to Kevin Sinfield's charity run - Published The Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise visit to support rugby league star Sir Kevin Sinfield, on the third day of his endurance challenge to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease (

“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon is pitching his vision for the Western world's future — and it hinges on Europe rebooting its sluggish economy and strengthening its defense capabilities. "I believe the U.S. should offer Europe a major inducement: If it executes meaningful economi

The year 2026 is shaping up to be the worst for domestic equities in more than a decade, as a combination of weak global and domestic factors has added persistent downward pressure on Dalal Street, pushing the market into double-digit losses. Bulls had hoped that this year could

Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers. According to US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Apple has no evidence to suppo

The FBI and Dutch law enforcement say they have arrested a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which the agencies say are responsible for hacks on over 140 organizations around the world. The hackers also claimed responsibility for a breach of the FBI’s own systems earlier

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Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that it is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable o

At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to oper

Anthropic’s pitch to investors: We’re losing gobs of money, we might kill everyone, buy our stock anyway. Reuters’ peek at the company’s IPO prospectus includes warnings not far off from Semafor’s imaginary list of risk factors, and it details the company’s plans to spend hundred

The News OpenAI on Tuesday launched a personalized agent tool, called dots — a new competitor to Meta’s popular Muse system. Dots “can do nearly anything,” OpenAI said, and integrates into applications like Slack and Microsoft Teams. People will soon be able to text with their do

Liz’s view Lloyd Blankfein, contemplating his exit from Goldman Sachs, liked to say that when things are bad, you can’t leave, and when things are good, you don’t want to. Blankfein was finally having fun, after a decade as CEO, when he started laying the groundwork for his exit

OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s DevDay on Tuesday, is one of several

OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can “do nearly anything” across connected apps in the background while learning your pre