They Raised Hogs on an 89-Acre Farm and Couldn’t Get Out of Debt. Then a Data Center Made Them a $22 Million Offer.
The AI data-center gold rush is turning overlooked rural land into gold, minting an unlikely class of millionaires.
The Next Startup Gold Rush Is in Civilization Technology — Here’s Where Entrepreneurs Should Look
After SpaceX, the next blockbuster IPO may come from civilization technology firms building the energy, defense, AI, space and biotech systems modern life needs to survive today.
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McDonald’s Secretly Built a See-Through Restaurant in a Chicago Warehouse —Here’s What’s Inside
The fast food giant showed off the new concept to franchisees at its Worldwide convention in Las Vegas.
An Olympic Gold Medalist Fell in Love With This Franchise While Traveling. Now He’s on Track for $275k in Revenue: ‘I Would Choose It Over a Million Times’
Michael Cherry visited Painting with a Twist locations wherever his track and field career took him.
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O’Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models’ “internal thoughts” as they reason through answers,…
PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps them only a few degrees above absolute zero.…
Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more.
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company’s financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.
Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.
X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground
The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users’ mutual followers’ to give the feed more of a communal feel.