• When AI Leaves the Screen and Enters Your Factory Every year, TechCrunch Disrupt acts as a thermometer for what the tech world is betting on next. The 2026 lineup is telling you something important: the next big AI stories won’t…

  • When AI Leaves the Screen, Your Business Is Next You’ve seen the AI headlines about chatbots and image generators. But there’s a quieter, more important shift happening: AI is moving out of the cloud and into the physical world —…

  • An American Back-to-School Sale That Really Does Concern You You run a business in Malaysia. Maybe you have ten employees, maybe you have three. And right now, on the other side of the planet, a major US retailer is in…

  • The Real Reason US Tech Sales Should Matter to Your Malaysian SME Every August, your social feed fills with screenshots of US shoppers walking out of stores with laptops, earbuds, and monitors at discounts that seem almost impossible. If you…

  • The invisible barrier that isn’t You bought iCloud+ because Apple promised that your real IP address would be hidden while you use Safari. For a Malaysian SME owner, that promise feels important—you handle client contracts, banking logins, supplier negotiations and…

  • Your Privacy Promise Has a Hole You are probably reading this on a phone — maybe an iPhone you’ve enabled iCloud+ on, because Apple’s marketing promised that iCloud Private Relay would keep your IP address hidden from websites. That’s a…

  • When the Rules Change Without Warning, Your SME Needs a Plan Imagine waking up one morning to discover that a government incentive your business depends on has been quietly removed — and you only found out through the news. That’s…

  • When a Schoolgirl’s Face Became a Cautionary Tale for Your Business You probably saw the news: a Form Five student in Penang was allegedly targeted in a sexual harassment and cyberbullying case, with her face manipulated using artificial intelligence and…