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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...
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...
The Benefits of Automation for Data Engineers
You oversee data collection, transformation, and storage as a data engineer. It's a complex and time-consuming process that often requires working with multiple teams to complete the job. But what if there was a way to make your job easier? Enter automation and data...
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NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show
The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that it would be turning the hit mobile word game into a televised game show on NBC. “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, while The Times and “The...
TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
TikTok is introducing an ad-free subscription plan in the U.K. that costs £3.99 (about $5.44) per month. The new offering is rolling out over the coming months and will be available to users 18 and over. Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and...
Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost
Discord on Monday unveiled Nitro Rewards, which gives Nitro subscribers access to offers from other gaming and lifestyle brands for no additional cost. Currently, Nitro offers upgrades to Discord itself, like more profile customization options, HD streaming, and the...
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entreprenuers looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around the Earth, and they’re too expensive. Most of the players are hoping that...
Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time
Venmo is rolling out a significant redesign over the coming months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payments app’s biggest refresh since 2021. The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is...
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, manufacturing remains a central pillar of economic growth. Unlike economies more heavily...
Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that...
Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being...
Uber has always wanted to be more than a ride; now it has reason to hurry
For years, Uber talked about becoming a super app. Then Waymo started picking up passengers in San Francisco, and the conversation grew more urgent. The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a...
AI tool poisoning exposes a major flaw in enterprise agent security
AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true. I discovered this gap when I filed Issue #141 in the CoSAI secure-ai-tooling repository. I assumed it would be...
TechCrunch Mobility: Lime’s IPO gamble
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! After years of hints and preparation, the Uber-backed...
We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic
Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what the deal...