He’s Invested in 100+ Startups — His Surprising Rule for Spotting ‘Real Builders’? Their Shoes
The cofounder of Instacart has an unusual method to assess whether founders are legitimate.
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…
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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.
The Data Liability Most Business Leaders Don’t Know They Have — Until It’s Too Late
As AI systems grow increasingly dependent on historical data to function accurately, unrecoverable historical data has become a liability that belongs on the C-suite agenda.
Your Marketing Team Is Doing Everything Right — But the Results Aren’t Adding Up. Here’s Why.
B2B marketing teams are generating more PR coverage, more content and more data than ever. But activity without alignment is just noise.
How Multi-Concept Ownership Benefits Both Franchisors and Franchisees
Multi-concept ownership isn’t just about scaling faster; it’s about scaling smarter with complementary businesses.
Most Founders Think Debt Is Risky and Equity Is Safe. Here’s Why That Belief Is Costing Them.
Debt first isn’t aggressive. It’s disciplined.
This is the One Question You Must Get Answered at a Franchise Discovery Day
Discovery Day is a critical step in the decision-making process that helps both parties move forward with confidence or decide not to proceed.
Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool
Nothing’s new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost “closed the gap” with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.