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Pre-Series A founders and anyone who knows a startup worth funding, this is your reminder. Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are open, and the strongest contenders are already stepping forward. If your startup was nominated, don’t stop there. Submit your application today. This is not just another pitch opportunity. You are stepping onto the main stage in front of 10,000+ attendees, top-tier VCs, and the global TechCrunch audience at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. You are competing, getting live feedback from top VCs, and proving your company belongs. If you have been thinking about applying or nominating a startup, waiting is the fastest way to miss out. Founders who move…
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start of your prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through signing in and connecting your account. If you want to set everything up at once, head over to the Settings…
Starting today, you have 5 days to save nearly $500 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. This offer disappears Friday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. There are no extensions. If you’ve even been considering attending one of the most anticipated tech conferences of the year, this is the week to save big. Prices will only increase as the event approaches. Register here to secure your savings. What is Disrupt? From October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Disrupt will bring together 10,000 founders, investors, and operators for three days designed to move deals, ideas, and companies forward. No matter your role, whether it’s founder, VC, operator, or aspiring leader, this conference delivers the connections…
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers. Now, with artificial intelligence top of mind for business, one Spanish startup is trying to become the go-to source of ground truth for enterprise. Xoople (said like “zoople’) is developing a satellite constellation to collect precise data aimed at deep learning models. The startup was founded in 2019 and has spent the last seven years developing its tech stack around data collected by government spacecraft, and integrating with cloud providers. CEO and cofounder Fabrizio Pirondini told TechCrunch…
OpenAI has some big ideas about how to deal with AI disruption. Loading audio narration… In a series of policy recommendations released on Monday, OpenAI said the rapid advance of AI would require far-reaching economic and political reforms, including a public wealth fund, taxes on automated labor, and a potential four-day workweek.”We’re beginning a transition toward superintelligence: AI systems capable of outperforming the smartest humans even when they are assisted by AI. No one knows exactly how this transition will unfold. At OpenAI, we believe we should navigate it through a democratic process that gives people real power to shape…
The AI talent war is spreading to robotics. Loading audio narration… Chinese humanoid robotics startup UBTech announced this month that it was seeking a new Chief Scientist with a maximum salary of 124 million yuan ($18 million), per a translated job listing.The top-end pay sits some way below the most eye-watering earnings offered during the scramble for AI talent, with Meta and OpenAI previously accusing each other of trying to poach star talent with paydays of up to $100 million.But it marks a departure for China’s fast-growing AI and robotics industries, which have until now appeared to avoid the vast…
Silicon Valley has long debated the value of product managers — the people tasked with aligning engineers, sales, and other teams to build products users want, often through a messy, friction-filled process. Loading audio narration… As AI and vibe coding turbocharge engineers, allowing them to build more and faster than ever before, however, product managers are now managing more than ever.Companies may either need to hire more of them or invent something new altogether, Anthropic’s head of growth, Amol Avasare, said on the latest episode of “Lenny’s Podcast.”Avasare said engineers are easily seeing the biggest gains from AI tools like…
Jensen Huang. Ben Horowitz. Sam Altman. Satya Nadella. Loading audio narration… Although that sounds like the Sun Valley Conference guest list, it’s actually just part of an eye-popping lineup of speakers for a Stanford University computer science course starting this spring.”Frontier Systems,” taught by professors Michael Abbott and Anjney Midha, will guide students through each layer of AI infrastructure — from chips to applications — over 10 weeks.When Abbot began teaching the course four years ago, it was called “Security at Scale” and drew about 60 students. Now, the course has 500 students and a waitlist, Abbot said.Part of the…
GPU prices have jumped this year, underscoring how far the market for AI chips remains from any kind of post-boom normalization. Loading audio narration… In an interview, Carmen Li, chief executive of Silicon Data, said the firm’s pricing data shows broad increases across older and newer Nvidia GPUs, used to train and run AI models.The firm’s Neo Cloud H100 index rose from 2.20 to 2.64, a 20% gain over the past three months. The Neo Cloud B200 index climbed from 4.40 to 5.35, a 22% jump. And the Hyperscaler H100 index increased from 7.26 to 7.46, up 3%, according to…
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Like a lot of young children, Matthew Shifrin loved building Lego sets. But because he was blind, Shifrin had to rely on friends and family to help him complete his creations — sometimes bribing them with tea to get them to come by his house.That all changed when he was 13. A family friend and babysitter came over to his house in Newton, Massachusetts and handed him a binder filled with accessible instructions for building a Middle Eastern palace. The instructions, written in braille, allowed him to complete the set without having to rely on the…