Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

摘要: Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

Theresa Loconsolo

Anthony Ha

Sean O'Kane

Kirsten Korosec

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Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

Theresa Loconsolo

Anthony Ha

Sean O'Kane

Kirsten Korosec

Oct 2, 2026

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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them —

to sign an AI safety pledge

that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an

executive order

officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting

friendlier faces on their AI products

, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s

podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the

ugly economics of consumer AI

, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals.

Listen to the full episode to hear more about:

Oura pulling its IPO

Anthropic’s

leaked S-1 and OpenAI going back to private funding, says about how picky public markets have gotten

Quartermaster’s $140M raise

to bring real-time sensors to an industry that AI basically hasn’t touched yet: maritime shipping

, a supply-chain startup from ex-Tesla vets, is already running 90% of DoorDash’s purchasing

How Startup Battlefield finalist Charter Space raised $5M to bring insurance to satellites

Speaking of Startup Battlefield, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where Equity will kick things off with a live show on the Builders Stage at 9 a.m.

Get 25% off your tickets with code Equity25

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Theresa Loconsolo

Audio Producer

Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch in 2022, she was one of 2 producer

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