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[ad_1] TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just a tech conference — it’s a launchpad. For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level. In 2025, that launchpad could be your exhibit table. With tables selling fast, now is your moment to get in front of 10,000+ founders, VCs, and tech innovators from October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. If you wait, your competitor will grab the spotlight — and the deals. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography What you lose if you don’t…

[ad_1] (Check out Carter’s worthcharting.com for actionable recommendations and live nightly videos.) Cement manufacturers Martin Marietta (MLM) and Vulcan Materials (VMC) are very similar businesses, with the shares in each company having a correlation of 92%. And right now, both stocks are toying with the prospect of breaking out to new 52-week highs and all-time highs. By our work, it is right to be accumulating each stock aggressively. Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) Buy for a breakout to new highs… Vulcan Materials (VMC) Buy for a breakout to new highs… DISCLOSURES: (None) All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are…

[ad_1] Do you remember the BlackBerry? If you’re younger than 30, you probably think I’m talking about the fruit.Nope. The BlackBerry was by far the most popular smartphone 20 years ago. Back in the mid-2000s, everyone used and loved its QWERTY keyboard and the ability to get emails instantly. Gasp!They were actually really cool. I loved mine, and I was late to trade it for a new device called the Apple iPhone. You may have heard of this one!BlackBerry was among the most valuable companies in the world and the pride of Canada, where it was founded. The stock peaked…

[ad_1] As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to Houston, regular cargo deliveries of medicines, and a quick ride home after six months. All of that may soon change as NASA and its commercial partners, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, look to conduct longer-duration missions that would take humans to the moon and Mars. That looming reality is pushing NASA to gradually make on-orbit medical care more “Earth-independent.” One early experiment is a proof-of-concept AI medical assistant the agency is building…

[ad_1] Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that the social app and inspirational bookmarking site could be considered an “AI-enabled shopping assistant.” However, he thinks that the agentic web, where AI agents shop on users’ behalf, is still far in the future. The remarks were made in response to a question about the agentic web, which could impact the search funnel and businesses like Pinterest, which positions itself at the early stages of the shopping journey — around the time when users are seeking ideas that could later turn into purchases. Investors are likely…

[ad_1] The stock market’s bull run is about to take a pause as economic growth continues to slow, according to Andrew Garthwaite, chief global equity strategist at UBS. The widely followed strategist pointed to implied intra-index volatility, which is close to the bottom end of its range, vulnerable for a reversal. Additionally, the Wall Street firm said it believes the U.S. economic data is poised to continue to deteriorate, threatening the market’s bull run. “When it rises, cyclicals have tended to underperform 84% of the time,” Garthwaite said in a note to clients, referring to implied volatility. “We continue to think…

[ad_1] OpenAI astounded the tech industry for the second time this week by launching its newest flagship model, GPT-5, just days after releasing two new freely available models under an open source license. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” That may be pride or hyperbole, as TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff reports that GPT-5 only slightly outperforms other leading AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI on some key benchmarks, and slightly lags on others. Still, it’s a model that performs well for a wide variety of uses, particularly coding.…

[ad_1] New York City is in crisis. A pocket of the city’s tech community thinks it has the solution.They’re looking to abundance, a fast-rising ideology that says the way out of urban decay is to build: more housing, more transit, more clean energy, and more tech. It’s a Yes-In-My-Backyard worldview aimed squarely at a city drowning in sky-high living costs and rising waters.The city is screaming with an unfocused angst, said Andrew Staniforth, the cofounder and CEO of construction tech startup Assembly OSM, during a “Tech for Abundance” panel Wednesday night in Midtown Manhattan.”I think that’s creating a bit of…

[ad_1] There’s a new slate of MVPs in the labor market.Over the past several months, a talent war has been rippling through Silicon Valley as companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic vie for an elite group of the best and the brightest working on artificial intelligence.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it the “most intense talent market I have seen in my career,” on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday, a day after OpenAI released GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship model.Altman, however, says that fighting over a chosen few may not be necessary.”I bet it’s much bigger than people think,”…

[ad_1] Better-than-expected earnings growth in Q2 has kept the equity bulls in control. Underneath the surface investors are enjoying the outperformance in technology software names as markets now sit in an interesting vacuum until the Fed’s critical September meeting. Even though this rally is getting long in the tooth, I believe there is more room to run. I want to use the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) to define risk as this basket of tech software stocks has had a tremendous run since Liberation Day lows in April while seeking to further capitalize on a move higher in this…