Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI
Generative AI is being infused into Google’s popular feature within Maps.
Here’s What Happens When Your Business Stops Being What You Do — and Becomes Who You Are
Many founders don’t realize when their identity becomes tied to their business — until stepping away starts to feel uncomfortable. Here’s why that shift happens and what it quietly costs.
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Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia’s latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
3 things Michelle Kim is into right now
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Redwood Materials lays off 10% in restructuring to chase energy storage business
The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.
Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.
SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion
Only Elon would do this before an IPO.
Here’s What Happens When Your Business Stops Being What You Do — and Becomes Who You Are
Many founders don’t realize when their identity becomes tied to their business — until stepping away starts to feel uncomfortable. Here’s why that shift happens and what it quietly costs.
How to Show Up With Kindness, Even When Entrepreneurship Leaves You Overwhelmed
Don’t let the demands of entrepreneurship cost you your kindness. Here are three ways to reset.
A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelectin-2, both helps fortify the mucosal barrier and offers broad-spectrum protection against harmful bacteria found in the GI tract. Intelectin-2 binds to a sugar…