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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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Alibaba’s proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic’s Claude Code
The AI industry has fully entered the "agent era," a paradigm where AI models do far more than generate text — they now actively plan, execute, and course-correct complex tasks over days rather than seconds. Thus, it's perhaps unsurprising to see Chinese e-commerce...
Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon — and a few from his inner circle
While there are some shocking revelations in SpaceX’s S-1 as it gets ready to become a public company, Elon Musk’s total control of the company perhaps isn’t one of them. I could argue that the oddball provision where Elon Musk gets up to a billion more shares to add...
Waymo halts freeway rides after robotaxis struggle in construction zones
Waymo has suspended robotaxi service on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami as it works to improve performance in construction zones, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Waymo said it’s in the process of integrating “recent...
A 0.12% parameter add-on gives AI agents the working memory RAG can’t
AI agents forget. Every time a coding assistant loses track of a debugging thread, or a data analysis agent re-ingests the same context it already processed, the team pays in latency, token costs, and brittle workflows. The fix most teams reach for — expanding the...
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century
Fragrance tech company Patina says it has raised $2 million in funding investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures. The company focuses on creating new scent molecules using advanced molecular design, machine learning, and scent research. Today, most of the...
Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
Alongside tools for AI-generated podcasts, Spotify on Thursday introduced a new, ElevenLabs-powered AI tool for self-publishing audiobooks within the Spotify for Authors platform. The company said at its Investor Day event that the feature will launch in beta this...
Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
For users, Spotify has been a place to consume podcasts made by other creators. The company wants to change that by introducing a personal podcast feature, which uses AI to generate podcasts for users based on an idea or a custom prompt. Earlier this month, the...
Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app
One of the common features for companies to build in the age of AI is to connect services like email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily brief in text or audio format. Spotify is also giving in to this temptation and releasing a new standalone desktop...
Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement
If you are a top fan of an artist, Spotify will give you a chance to book a ticket to their next show. This is the audio platform’s new bid to keep its users engaged and stream more to become eligible to be a top fan. Spotify didn’t give an exact criterion to be a...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes to Twitch to chat with New Yorkers
Long before Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s 112th mayor, he understood that if you want to reach young voters, you have to meet them online. Now, in classic Mamdani fashion, the mayor is taking that strategy even further. On Thursday, Polygon exclusively...
Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app optimized for well-being, not engagement
In a media landscape dominated by Baby Shark and Skibidi Toilet, one startup is reimagining children’s media by focusing on well-being, not watch time. Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy...
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive “universal” AI interface
What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said on Thursday that it had raised that much in a Series A round that...