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[ad_1] Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads. The announcement marks Meta’s latest move to get ahead of OpenAI and Google in the AI race. After previously poaching top talent to run Meta Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be turning its attention to the massive computational power needed to train frontier AI models. Zuckerberg said…
[ad_1] Cloud seeding startup Rainmaker is partnering with Atmo, an AI-powered meteorology startup, the companies exclusively told TechCrunch. The two operate on complementary ends of the weather system: Atmo studies atmospheric patterns to forecast weather events, while Rainmaker digests such data in an attempt to squeeze more precipitation out of weather systems. Under the partnership, Atmo will use its deep learning models to help Rainmaker identify clouds that have potential for seeding. The forecasting startup will also offer Rainmaker’s cloud seeding services, deployed via small drones, to its customers. For its part, Rainmaker will contribute data from its proprietary radar…
[ad_1] (This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — Earnings season is super annoying for trend-following investment strategies. The potential for both positive and negative surprises is higher, which can lead to reversals in trend and gappy trading before and after the opening and closing bells of trading. It can be a minefield. Sean and I try to avoid highlighting names right before they report for this reason. This time, however, we’re going to break that tradition and show you a few set-ups for…
[ad_1] You voted — they made it onto the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 agenda! After reviewing hundreds of standout Call for Content submissions and opening the vote to the TechCrunch audience, we’ve locked in the top five roundtables and top five breakout sessions. Without further ado, meet the exceptional tech voices — and the sessions they’ll lead — that will shape the conversation at Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Visit the agenda page for full session and speaker details. Grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices increase. Breakout session winners From…
[ad_1] This week marks the first full week of earnings season, and several stocks have been building profit momentum over the past few months, based on analysts’ increased estimates. This week, 35 companies in the S & P 500 and six members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are due to report. They include the six largest U.S. banks – including JPMorgan , Bank of America and Goldman Sachs – as well as United Airlines and the dominant streaming platform Netflix . CNBC Pro screened the S & P 500 names reporting this week to see where analysts have grown…
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cody Barbo, founder and CEO of Trust and Will. It has been edited for length and clarity.At the start of 2020, I was living in San Diego near a military base. I started noticing guys in uniform buying carts of canned goods. No one was talking about COVID-19 yet, but I thought to myself, those military personnel probably knew something I didn’t.My wife was about to have our first baby, who was eventually born on February 1, 2020. If something was going to happen, I needed to be prepared. So,…
[ad_1] TechCrunch All Stage officially kicks off tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET at SoWa Power Station in Boston — and that’s when ticket prices jump to full rate. This isn’t just another founder event. It’s the summit built to help startups fundraise smarter, scale faster, and lead with impact. Whether you’re tightening your pitch, planning a raise, or navigating team growth, TC All Stage delivers the tactics and tools to take you further. Right now, until the doors open tomorrow, Founder Passes are just $100 and Investor Passes are $200 — the lowest rates available. Once the event begins, prices…
[ad_1] Moonvalley, one of the prominent AI firms working in Hollywood, just raised $84 million in new funding to build on its AI video tools for filmmakers and other creative professionals, Business Insider learned exclusively.The round was led by an existing investor General Catalyst and, in a vote of confidence from Hollywood stalwarts, includes strategic investments from talent giant CAA and Comcast Ventures, the VC arm of Comcast.Cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave also is participating, as are existing investors Khosla Ventures and YCombinator. The new round brings Moonvalley’s total funding to $154 million.Moonvalley is among a handful of companies that are…
[ad_1] Washington CNN — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has asked the central bank’s inspector general to formally review an ongoing $2.5 billion renovation of the institution’s headquarters in Washington, DC, according to a source familiar with the matter. Powell made the request “a few weeks ago,” the source said. At a congressional hearing last month, Powell was grilled by Senate lawmakers over what they depicted as lavish upgrades to the Fed’s headquarters. Powell said some of those upgrades, such as Italian beehives, are not part of the renovation. Since then, the Fed head has been under fire by top…
[ad_1] CNN — President Donald Trump expanded his tariff threats over the weekend, calling for 30% levies on two of America’s largest trading partners: the European Union and Mexico. Those tariffs are set to take effect August 1, unless either party inks a trade deal or takes other measures that cause the president to reverse course. If that does not happen, Americans could get stuck paying more for an extensive list of goods. But as is the case with the various tariffs Trump has already imposed — including the nearly universal 10% and the 25% tariffs on goods from Canada…