Every founder applying to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: disrupt the main stage. Six-minute live presentation and demo in front of top-tier Silicon Valley investors. A dedicated TechCrunch article was published at the time of your submission. You could win a $100,000 equity-free prize and a shot at the Disrupt Cup. And it can…
AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on use in an effort to reduce costs. That group includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage limits as a way to cut down on its excessive AI spending. Bloomberg reports the company created a new rule that sets a monthly limit of $1,500 per…
AI companies have evolved into data-hungry organisations that require large datasets to train their models. To meet that need, many AI startups disregard long-standing Internet conventions – e.g., Respecting robots.txt files. This signals to automated crawlers which parts of the website are off-limits and allows them to aggressively scrape the data. This trend has forced…
softbank group announced today It plans to spend up to €75 billion (about $87 billion) to expand data centre capacity in France. The goal is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data centre capacity, the company said. The first phase of the plan involves the construction of data centres in Dunkirk…
America has had a plutonium problem for decades. About 100 tonnes of the material was used to make powerful nuclear bombs during the Cold War. But athey destroyed nuclear stockpilesed, the government had to store the radioactive material in high-security facilities. Now, he wants startups to help relieve some of the burden. Five nuclear startups…
I recently had the opportunity to sit with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the noise all around us, de Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies navigating the AI security moment we’re all living through,…
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, massively rewarding workers who use it while displacing those who don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of collaboration software startup ClickUp claims this change is imminent. Last Thursday, Evans announced on X that the company, which was…
