Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia’s Roelof Botha
Sequoia’s managing partner Roelof Botha noted that there are currently 3,000 venture firms in the United States, while there were just 1,000 when he joined Sequoia 20 years ago.
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven’t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia […]
CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot
Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don’t work out, and that’s okay.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a 3-4 day workweek because of AI.
Roelof Botha explains why Sequoia supports Shaun Maguire after COO quit
Sequoia’s managing partner Roelof Botha defended his colleague’s controversial comments that sparked an online backlash, arguing that the VC firm needs “spiky” people.
ExxonMobil accuses California of violating its free speech
ExxonMobil is suing California over state laws that compel large companies to share a more comprehensive picture of their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as disclose financial risks that climate change might pose to their investors. The oil and gas company claims that the two laws in question aim to “embarrass” large corporations the state […]
Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo characters, a Warthog vehicle from the games, and the text “DESTROY THE FLOOD” […]
AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Lux is slated to come online fairly soon in early 2026, with […]
Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Damoa pinpointed the problem: the complex, multi-step process moving a container from a ship to a freight train. He founded Glīd Technologies to try and solve it.
Mbodi will show how it can train a robot using AI agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Mbodi users prompt the software with natural language, and its cluster of AI agents works to make training easier.