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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...
How Online Technology is Fuelling the iGaming Industry
The iGaming industry includes all forms of online gaming. So, if you play online casino games, bet on sport, or play online bingo games for real money, you are part of the iGaming world. The iGaming industry has only been possible because of the internet and the...
5 Reasons A Startup Might Consider Co-Selling
There are a lot of things to think about when you're starting a business. One of the most important decisions you'll make is how to sell your product or service. There are a few different options, each with advantages and disadvantages. One option that is growing in...
Virtual Casinos Are A Reality And Continue To Grow
Virtual Casinos Are A Reality And Continue To Grow People like to have fun with games of chance. There are people who play professionally and others just for fun and to have a good time. The truth is that in recent years, with the advancement of technology as the main...
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RAG precision tuning can quietly cut retrieval accuracy by 40%, putting agentic pipelines at risk
Enterprise teams that fine-tune their RAG embedding models for better precision may be unintentionally degrading the retrieval quality those pipelines depend on, according to new research from Redis.The paper, "Training for Compositional Sensitivity Reduces Dense...
Spotify’s next frontier: fitness content
After expanding into podcasts, audiobooks, video, and even physical books, Spotify on Monday announced its next big category: fitness content. The company is building on its reputation as a hub for energizing playlists for your workout to actually become the home to...
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
The race to secure electricity for AI models has reached new heights: Meta has signed an agreement with the startup Overview Energy that could see a thousand satellites beam infrared light to solar farms that power data centers at night. In 2024, Meta’s data centers...
Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures
Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across telecom networks and smartphone...
The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder
Theo Baker is graduating from Stanford this spring with something most seniors don’t have: a book deal, a George Polk Award that he received for his investigative reporting as a student journalist, and a front-row account of one of the most romanticized institutions...
Amazon’s new podcast strategy: Monetize everything
Amazon’s podcasting business has transformed over the past six months, according to The New York Times. Back in August 2025, the company reportedly eliminated more than 100 jobs from its podcast studio Wondery. At the time, Amazon insisted it was not shutting Wondery...
What Tim Cook built
After 15 years as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook will be stepping down from the role in September. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Apple’s big announcement. We reflected on how Apple has changed since Cook...
TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla earnings came and went, and much of it fell into the “we expected...
To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco. Homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan has created a LinkedIn page for the home, which he said he’d “like to exchange […] for Anthropic equity.” The San...
SpeakOn’s dictation device is a good idea marred by platform limitations
I constantly use dictation apps such as Wispr Flow, Willow, or Typeless to reply to messages and emails on both my Mac and my phone. But to do so, I have to use my phone’s mic or AirPods to dictate my messages, and they often don’t pick up what I am saying. That’s why...
Monitoring LLM behavior: Drift, retries, and refusal patterns
The stochastic challengeTraditional software is predictable: Input A plus function B always equals output C. This determinism allows engineers to develop robust tests. On the other hand, generative AI is stochastic and unpredictable. The exact same prompt often yields...
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money. The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with...