TechCrunch | 2026-08-27

TechCrunch has announced the lineup for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco and presented by Google for Startups. The stage will dig into "the business models AI is rewriting, the wealth of unsolved security gaps, and the entirely new job categories AI has created from scratch," covering questions like how to price AI products when models become commoditized, why agent security has to be rebuilt from the infrastructure up, and what a go-to-market plan actually means in an AI-native world. On deck: "What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude," in which Cat de Jong, Head of Applied AI at Anthropic, works directly with enterprises putting Claude to work across their most critical workflows and sees patterns that never make it into press releases — where deployments succeed immediately, where they stall, and what separates the organizations extracting real value from the ones still running pilots eighteen months later. OpenAI is also set to join the stage, with more announcements to come. TechCrunch notes it is closing in on the end of its current pricing window, with tickets saving up to $200 ending soon.

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