Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings a fresh wave of founders, the startups presenting this week skewed far more toward deep tech than in past years. As we do every quarter, TechCrunch asked early-stage VCs to name the hottest startups in…
Devin Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are loud on X and seem to live on podcasts, Parekh and Insight Partners tend to lay low. In this sit-down with TechCrunch at its StrictlyVC event on Thursday night in New York, Parekh was refreshingly candid about…
Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison has canceled a planned sale of his Oracle stock, the company announced on Saturday. Oracle had previously disclosed in a regulatory filing that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion, according to Reuters. The company did not offer a reason for the change in…
@jax.jit def render_chunk(params, o, d, rng): _, out_f, aux = render_rays(params, o, d, rng, deterministic=True) return out_f.ray_values[“rgb”], out_f.ray_depth, out_f.ray_alpha, aux def render_image(params, origins, dirs, rng): “””Chunked full-image render with padding, so only one shape gets compiled.””” o = jnp.asarray(origins.reshape(-1, 3)); d = jnp.asarray(dirs.reshape(-1, 3)) R = o.shape[0]; rgb, dep, alp = [], [], [] for…
Former President Barack Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety, according to The New York Times. Obama made these comments on Thursday, at Democratic fundraising event where he was interviewed by…
In most decoder-only LLMs, nothing computed at the last layer of token t feeds the first layer of token t+1; positions communicate only through attention over cached keys and values. A Princeton researcher’s (Yifan Zhang) technical report, Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT), proposes closing that loop. The decoder’s final hidden state and its layerwise sliding-window attention…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Lyft reached a new milestone this week when Waymo robotaxis landed on its app in…
Fusion energy is getting again to its roots. As fusion startups preserve chasing their final purpose — placing electrons on the grid — many are additionally now embracing, or returning to, the protection functions that laid the muse for the trade. The sector emerged a long time in the past when physicists regarded for extra…
Welcome again to Energy Play! Every week, senior author Molly Taft tackles a subject round this midterm season’s largest challenge: information facilities. For those who’ve obtained a query or thought for the column, be happy to shoot Molly an e-mail at [email protected] or attain them securely on Sign at mollytaft.76. “What on earth are they…
AWS introduced Pizza Bot, as a self-hosted application for AI tasks that continue while users work elsewhere. It organizes completed results and pending decisions into an email-style inbox. Earlier versions served more than 2,000 people inside Amazon, supporting meeting preparation, email drafting, Slack summaries, CRM logging, and research. The public application was rebuilt as an…
