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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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OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at...
This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots
In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. Meanwhile, startups working on home services, such as on-demand household staffing platforms like...
Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing ‘risk to public interest’
The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform. The government in The Hague said the deal poses a possible “risk to the public interest.” Dutch minister...
Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved
In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hackers and hacking groups behind them have never been unmasked. But prolific hacking groups do get caught. This is true...
Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover
Security researchers say a March breach of the Los Angeles transit system (LACMTA) was the work of Iranian-backed hackers. Israeli startup Gambit Security said in a report on Tuesday that the hackers work for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and State Security (MOIS). ...
Ferrari’s first EV is not for you
Everyone seems to be mad about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle. Called Luce and revealed on Monday, the design of the five-seater (gasp!) was led in large part by Jony Ive and the design firm he runs with Marc Newson, LoveFrom. While it ticks a lot of spec sheet...
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok recently announced the renewal of their licensing agreement, which includes a commitment to get rid of unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform improve how artists and songwriters are credited. In their joint...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29
Four days. That’s all that’s left to decide, not just whether you’ll be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but how you’ll show up from October 13 to 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West and how much momentum you create once you’re there. Right now, you can save up to $410 on...
7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data
Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says a data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven affects over 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and physical addresses. The data breach, reported in April, also included phone numbers and...
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation
E-commerce logistics company Stord has raised a $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation, it announced Tuesday. This doubles its valuation from a year-ago round. The new funding was led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund,...
Why prompt debt, retrieval debt, and evaluation debt are quietly reshaping enterprise AI risk
Over the past two decades, technical debt meant outdated architecture, messy code, and poorly maintained documentation. That definition is no longer sufficient in the AI era, where failure modes are more subtle and often non-linear. AI systems are introducing new...
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp,...