Technology
A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me. | TechCrunch
I cannot say with 100% certainty that nineteen-year-old Justin Jin is not pulling an elaborate prank on me. In my defense, Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as...
Technology
AI Training Goes Off the Grid With Solar Homes and Spare GPUs
Artificial intelligence harbors an enormous energy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in the hefty carbon footprint of the data centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time of carbon emissions from training frontier AI...
Technology
Over-the-Air Computation Uses Radio Interference to Crunch Data
Picture a highway with networked autonomous cars driving along it. On a serene, cloudless day, these cars need only exchange thimblefuls of data with one another. Now picture the same stretch in a sudden snow squall: The cars rapidly...
Technology
He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
If you haven’t heard of UpScrolled before, a brief primer: It’s a social media platform not too different from, say, Instagram or TikTok. You can share photos or short videos, follow accounts, comment on posts, and amass a following...
Technology
AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost | TechCrunch
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.The startup, based in Surat, India,...
Technology
OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund | TechCrunch
A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has made its first close on its $100 million goal, the founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written a couple of checks. The fund is called Zero Shot (a...
Innovation
Why ‘Just Start’ Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Key Takeaways
Many founders skip planning and end up making reactive decisions, chasing opportunities that don’t move the business forward and confusing busyness with real progress.
A business plan doesn’t have to be long...
Innovation
The Customer Survey Question That Led This Company to Scrap a Product Worth Hundreds of Millions
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For years, Prezi’s CEO Jim Szafranski focused the company’s strategy on helping customers nail their presentations. But the surprising results of a survey made Szafranski realize that Prezi users’ biggest pain point wasn’t exactly what he thought it was....
Innovation
This 28-Year-Old College Dropout Has Raised $24 Million to Fix a Military Problem ‘Nobody Was Thinking About’
Key Takeaways
Peter Goldsborough dropped out of college to start his career in Silicon Valley on Facebook’s AI research team.He then worked for Anduril as a chief engineer before starting his own company, Rune Technologies.Rune tackles the problem of military...
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Israel to hold direct talks with Lebanon, Netanyahu says
The announcement came after a massive wave of Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday which killed 303 people, according...