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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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As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms
Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply issues that could impact business in the near future. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with...
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says
Skio, a 2020 Y Combinator alum that was founded by self-described college dropout Kennan Frost, has been acquired by competitor Recharge, the companies announced on Thursday. Both Skio and Recharge make products that handle subscription payments for brands. While the...
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round, which TechCrunch reported is expected to be roughly $50 billion, is estimated to close within...
Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
Apple’s iPhone sales and Services revenue were the stars of the show in the tech giant’s most recent quarter, but the Mac quietly outperformed — helped by growing demand for AI workloads. Wall Street investors had expected to see Mac revenue in the low $8 billion...
Alibaba’s Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it
One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary...
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
Nvidia has laid a new brick in its AI empire. NVentures, its corporate VC fund, has backed Legora, reportedly its first legal AI investment. Leveraging AI to help lawyers streamline their work, the Swedish-born legal tech startup is competing with U.S. player Harvey....
Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B, while boosting capacity of Georgia factory
Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new factory in Georgia, down from the original amount of $6.6 billion allocated under the Biden administration. The company also announced Thursday that...
Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites
Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a newly discovered vulnerability in the widely used web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM). The bug allows hackers to hijack and take full control of the servers running the affected software,...
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too
After Sam Altman trash-talked Anthropic for gatekeeping its cybersecurity tool Mythos by only releasing it to select users, he confirmed that OpenAI would be doing the same with its competing tool, Cyber. Altman said in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI will begin...
EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting
Faraday Future paid around $7.5 million to a company controlled by its founder Jia Yueting in 2025, according to a new regulatory filing. The long-struggling electric vehicle startup made the payments in a year when it delivered only four vehicles and lost nearly $400...
One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool RunPod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev
Runpod, the high-performance cloud computing and GPU platform designed specifically for AI development, today launched a new open source, MIT licensed, enterprise-friendly Python programming tool called Runpod Flash — and it is poised to make creation, iteration and...
OpenAI announces new advanced security for ChatGPT accounts, including a partnership with Yubico
OpenAI is getting serious about account security. The company on Thursday launched Advanced Account Security (AAS), a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users designed for high-value individuals — but available to anyone who wants them. As part of that new program,...