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Exploring The Future of AI: Insights From Yuri Milner’s Eureka Manifesto
The topic of AI fills today’s headlines, dividing opinions on whether it will serve as a positive force or lead to more concerning outcomes. In Eureka Manifesto: The Mission for Our Civilization, tech entrepreneur and investor Yuri Milner offers a thoughtfully...
Charting The Next Frontier of Human Achievement with Yuri Milner’s Eureka Manifesto
Released in 2021, Eureka Manifesto: The Mission for Our Civilisation is a short book by Giving Pledge signatory and Tech For Refugees founder Yuri Milner. The book sets forth a grand mission for humanity: to explore and understand our Universe. Milner argues that, if...
A Look at How Technology is Revolutionizing the World of Online Gambling
https://images.pexels.com/photos/3021120/pexels-photo-3021120.jpeg Technology has revolutionized the world of online gambling in more ways than one. From providing players with access to a larger selection of games, to offering them better user experience and even...
Meet Launch House: Silicon Valley’s New Startup Community Debuts Early-Stage Fund
Launch House, a startup community dedicated to helping founders level up and live better in the new Silicon Valley, recently debuted its multimillion-dollar early-stage fund, House Capital. Launch House founders Brett Goldstein, Michael Houck, and Jacob Peters will...
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Instagram might soon let you remove yourself from someone’s Close Friends list
Instagram is developing a feature that will allow users to remove themselves from someone’s “Close Friends” list, Meta told TechCrunch on Friday. The company says the feature is still in the early stages and is not being tested publicly yet. The social network’s Close...
Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue...
SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime
SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a potential 2026 IPO — a move that could signal the long-awaited reopening of the public markets after a years-long IPO drought. In the meantime, late-stage private companies like SpaceX are finding other...
Arcee’s U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence
San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source licenses to the public—enabling developers, solo entrepreneurs, and...
Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets
Loading the player… Self-driving truck startup Waabi’s billion-dollar fundraise isn’t just about trucks. The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million from Uber tied to deployment milestones, marks a major expansion into robotaxis for the company...
This tree search framework hits 98.7% on documents where vector search fails
A new open-source framework called PageIndex solves one of the old problems of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): handling very long documents.The classic RAG workflow (chunk documents, calculate embeddings, store them in a vector database, and retrieve the top...
Anthropic brings agentic plugins to Cowork
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now, Anthropic has launched a new feature within...
The trust paradox killing AI at scale: 76% of data leaders can’t govern what employees already use
The chief data officer (CDO) has evolved from a niche compliance role into one of the most critical positions for AI deployment. These executives now sit at the intersection of data governance, AI strategy, and workforce readiness. Their decisions determine whether...
Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands
Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, like age-assurance compliance, monitoring of influence operations, automated labeling, and more. The social media...
Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump
Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is urging his fellow tech moguls in Silicon Valley to not just condemn the killings of two American citizens at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but to stop pacifying President Trump. In posts on X and an opinion column penned for...
Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says
The Polish government said Russian government hackers broke into parts of the country’s energy grid infrastructure, taking advantage of its poor security. On Friday, Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), which is part of the Ministry of Digital Affairs,...
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This is it. The clock is running out. With demand surging and early inventory nearly gone, tonight is your last chance to lock in record-low pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and secure a +1 pass at 50% off while limited passes remain. If Disrupt has been on your...