This Billionaire Thinks Big University Donors Should Spur Innovation

Investor Kenneth Hao’s $100 million gift to UCSF targets AI and collaboration. But he warns philanthropists can’t solve all of higher education’s funding challenges.

Claude For Small Business Shows Where White-Collar AI Is Heading

Claude for Small Business is another sign that the AI market is moving toward AI and agents embedded in systems focused on serving the needs of daily work.

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said. “Google has denied taking that land.” Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state […]

AI Is The Key Powering Qualcomm’s Rise To Top Of Automotive Stack

Qualcomm has rapidly shot past its peers to become a leader in the automotive sector with a record 15 consecutive quarters of growth. How?

Cerebras raises $5.5B, kicking off 2026’s IPO season with a bang

A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards
Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were “strongly” in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data […]

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

This is Cisco’s latest layoff in recent years, while the company’s chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs

Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.