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Premium Video Wall Rentals vs Purchasing: Making the Right Choice
Las Vegas, known for its glitzy events and high-profile gatherings, offers a plethora of video wall rental services designed to make any function spectacular. High-definition (HD) video walls can transform an ordinary event into a sensational experience, captivating...
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...
DealDash, Invaluable and the Internet’s Other Auction Blocks Reviewed
Since the launch of eBay in 1995, back in the baby days of the Internet, web users have been intoxicated by the hunt for great auction deals and the thrill of bidding to win them. Shopping had always been fun, but now that scavenger hunt for sweet stuff you may or...
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ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
As enterprises troubleshoot their AI systems, governance has emerged as a key challenge. Some are taking a dual approach: One model to handle incoming queries, and another to keep the first one from getting into trouble. That’s the premise of ZeroDrift, a new AI...
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Impulse Space, a startup founded by SpaceX engine guru Tom Mueller to build highly-maneuverable spacecraft, announced a $500 million Series D this week that it will use to hire as many as 200 new employees. The round, led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with...
Zip’s new AI agents want to stop your finance team from uploading contracts into personal ChatGPT accounts
Zip, the AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion, announced two products on Monday that mark a turning point in its evolution from procurement software to autonomous AI platform: a suite of five AI "Superagents" that can review contracts, code invoices, and...
Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst
Pacific Fusion took the wraps off its latest pulser module prototype on Tuesday, a piece of equipment that allows the company to move ahead with its demonstration fusion power plant. Construction on the fusion power plant is expected to begin this summer. Results from...
The design bottleneck for solo founders? AI has solved it.
Presented by Design.comSomething significant is happening in how people build businesses. There are currently 29.8 million solopreneurs contributing $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy, and over 80% of all U.S. small businesses now operate with no employees. In 2024...
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and demo live, in front of top-tier Silicon Valley investors. A dedicated TechCrunch article published as you present. A shot at the $100,000...
Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout
Google parent company Alphabet said Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to help pay for the massive AI infrastructure buildout it has planned. Alphabet will sell off that amount in stock and will then use the funds to pay for “general corporate purposes,...
Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year
Mach Industries, the three-year-old defense tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised a $300 million Series C at a $1.8 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The raise nearly quadruples the valuation of the company in a...
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it. The...
From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?
Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a pitch. Dropbox demoed to a room of skeptics. Cloudflare took the stage before most people understood what edge networking meant. Discord...
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents
OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by the Florida Attorney General on Monday, in a first-of-its-kind state litigation effort over ChatGPT’s alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as...
Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into granting access
Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a victim’s account. Over the weekend, several users on Reddit claimed that...