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Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society could be reconfigured to share the abundance created by AI technology. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the Khosla Ventures founder suggested the U.S. government could take a 10% stake in all public corporations and redistribute that corporate wealth to the public at large. As Khosla put it, the idea was spurred by President Donald Trump’s decision for the U.S. government to purchase a 10% stake in Intel. “When Trump bought 10% of Intel, I wondered if it wasn’t a good idea,” Khosla said onstage at Disrupt. “Take…
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, an attorney for the teacher said Tuesday as trial opened in the woman’s $40 million lawsuit.Abby Zwerner, a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand. A bullet remains in…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday accused the companies behind Tylenol of deceptively marketing the pain reliever to pregnant mothers in a lawsuit that asserted unproven claims that early exposure to acetaminophen increased risk of autism and other disorders.Paxton, an ally of President Donald Trump and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, announced the suit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue weeks after Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted an unproven link between the pain reliever and autism while announcing a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.The suit alleges that the…
Finding the best surround sound system for your home theater can feel overwhelming. Between speaker size, room layout, and overall performance, there’s a lot to weigh. As someone who reviews home entertainment gear for a living, I’ve tested everything from compact soundbars to full-scale speaker setups. With that in mind, I’m here to break down the basics of surround sound and offer my top picks.The best surround sound systems use dedicated rear or “satellite” speakers to create a cinematic soundstage that pulls you right into your favorite movies, shows, and games. If you’re looking for a great all-around option, I…
I’m not a financial advisor, but I am a lawyer who’s spent enough time around markets to know how unpredictable they can be.I recently had some extra cash, and I wanted to invest it in something unique. I didn’t want to put the money into the volatile stock market, bonds, crypto, or even real estate.When I ran out of options, I turned to an unlikely guide for help and found an even more unlikely answer.I turned to AI to help me investAI has been working well for me lately — helping me plan trips, organize work, and even write better,…
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos sits down with Lee Roberts, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to discuss his ambitious plan to make AI the university’s North Star amid a tumultuous year. Roberts walks through his decision to merge UNC’s School of Data Science and Society with its School of Information and Library Science, explaining why breaking down academic silos is essential when the technology moves faster than universities typically can. He addresses the $38 million in terminated federal research grants — concentrated in areas like public health — and why he’s less concerned…
Taranjeet Singh (pictured above, right) has launched six companies, with some failing and others seeing varying degrees of success. His seventh, Mem0, could be his defining one. The startup starts with the premise that large language models can’t remember past interactions the way humans do. If two people are chatting and the connection drops, they can resume the conversation. AI models, by contrast, forget everything and start from scratch. Mem0 fixes that. Singh calls it a “memory passport,” where your AI memory travels with you across apps and agents, just like email or logins do today. The YC-backed startup, launched…
OpenAI on Tuesday said it had completed its recapitalization, splitting the AI lab into a for-profit corporation nested inside a non-profit foundation. It’s the end result of a complex legal process that had been strenuously resisted by its estranged co-founder, Elon Musk. Under the new structure, the non-profit OpenAI Foundation will have legal control over a public benefit corporation called OpenAI Group, which is free to raise funding or acquire companies without legal restraint. The Foundation will hold a significant stake in OpenAI Group and will appoint its board of directors. “We believe that the world’s most powerful technology must…
This is a KFF Health News story.One family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just found out their health plan’s deductible will jump from $800 to $20,000 next year. About 200 miles north, in Maryland, another household learned they’ll pay $500 more monthly to insure their brood in 2026. And thousands of people in Idaho were greeted with insurance rates that’ll cost, on average, $100 more every month.As shopping season opens for Affordable Care Act plans in some states, customers are confronting staggering costs for their health insurance next year. The extra federal subsidies put in place in 2021 that made coverage…
It’s time for day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which means San Francisco’s Moscone West will be jam-packed with another marathon of speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and after-parties for attendees. Keep in mind that you can still register for tickets to join the excitement, and since we’re already a day in, you can get a ticket for 50% off the standard walk-up price. Refresh yourself on our speaker lineup right here, or dive deeper into each of our stages, events, networking opportunities, and more by following the anchor links below. Most importantly, have fun out there, and if you want…