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TechCrunch published the final Disrupt Stage lineup for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place Oct. 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, featuring sessions from leaders including Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, and many founders, investors, and Startup Battlefield finalists.
HackerRank is making Chakra, an AI interviewer that observes candidates working on real code repositories, asks contextual follow-ups, and scores reasoning and “AI fluency,” generally available after about six months in beta. The company says Chakra ran more than 500,000 interviews during testing with customers such as Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini, and reported 70–80% fewer suspicious-activity flags versus traditional assessments.
Shopify introduced Canvas, a site-building tool that lets merchants create and edit their Shopify stores by chatting with the company's AI assistant, Sidekick. Canvas applies changes directly to the store's real theme files and renders an interactive, real-time view (including screenshots and responsive previews) as Sidekick updates the site.
Berlin-based Restate, founded in 2022, closed a $20M Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures to scale its durable execution engine used for long-running, agentic AI workflows; the company plans to hire go-to-market staff, add engineers, and expand its San Francisco office. Restate differentiates by building its own storage, replication and redundancy layers (not relying on external databases) and has customers including Replit and Fortune 500 firms.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will be held Oct. 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The event’s current ticket pricing window closes Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT (prices rise afterward); the last day to book an exhibit table is Sept. 18.
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