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How One Investor Deployed $500M Into AI Startups Without Raising a Traditional Fund Justin Ernest, founder of Sabertooth VC, invested nearly half a billion dollars into hot startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX without spending a year building a formal venture capital fund. Instead, he tapped into a ready-made network
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Sam Altman's Identity Verification Company Lays Off Staff as Revenue Struggles Tools for Humanity, the identity verification startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is cutting its workforce as the company struggles to generate meaningful revenue. The move comes as parent company OpenAI prepares for a major IPO
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Notion Restores Access to Anthropic After Brief Service Outage Notion, the popular workspace and notes app, experienced a temporary disruption that cut off access to Anthropic's Claude AI. The company quickly restored service, but the incident sparked widespread conversation on social media. Notion's head of product
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White House AI Advisor Steps Down—What It Means for Your Business Sriram Krishnan, who served as White House AI advisor under the Trump administration, is leaving his official role to start a new institution focused on shaping AI policy. According to reporting from TechCrunch, Krishnan plans to continue influencing
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Google's Massive Deal with SpaceX Signals the Real Cost of AI Demand Google just committed to paying SpaceX $920 million per month for computing power. That's over $11 billion a year. The search giant says the deal stems from unexpectedly high demand for its new AI
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Airbnb's CEO Is Building His Own AI Lab—Here's Why That Matters to You Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is launching a dedicated AI lab to develop custom artificial intelligence tools for the company. Chesky previously said Airbnb had avoided partnering with existing AI providers because the
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Alphabet's $85B AI Investment Shows Money Is Flooding Into AI—Here's What That Means for You Alphabet just raised $85 billion through a stock sale—a record for the company—with investors clearly betting big that Google's AI business will keep growing. This massive
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Microsoft Releases Free Tool to Test AI Behavior—Here's Why You Should Care Microsoft released a new open-source framework called Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing on Tuesday. The tool lets developers describe what they want their AI systems to do using plain English, then automatically
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Nvidia's New AI Agent PCs Could Change How Small Businesses Work Nvidia is pushing into a major market by partnering with Microsoft, Dell, and HP to build AI agent computers that can handle tasks on their own. These new PCs would run AI assistants that work like employees—
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Why Customer Backlash Won't Stop AI-Powered Innovation in Transportation Ferrari just launched the Luce, an AI-assisted supercar designed to enhance driving performance, and public reception has been lukewarm at best. Despite widespread criticism from enthusiasts and consumers, TechCrunch's latest mobility coverage reveals that companies aren'
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Google's New Gemini Spark AI Assistant Actually Works for Running Your Business Google just released Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI assistant designed to handle the small tasks that eat up your workday. It can summarize your inbox, plan local events, draft emails, and automate routine work—basically
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When Companies Go All-In on AI, They Often Miss What Actually Works Box founder Aaron Levie recently described a troubling pattern: executives cutting jobs for AI agents without understanding what those jobs actually entail. He calls it "AI psychosis"—when companies become so convinced that artificial intelligence can
