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Billionaire who paid $4.6M for dinner with Buffett says he’d spend $30M for an hour with Elon Musk

After famously paying $4.6 million for a charity dinner with Warren Buffett, crypto billionaire Justin Sun says he would now ...

Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, breaking VC taboo on backing rivals: FT

Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to the Financial Times. It’s a move sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley. Why? Because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector, preferring to place their bets on a single winner. […]

Stop calling it 'The AI bubble': It's actually multiple bubbles, each with a different expiration date

It’s the question on everyone’s minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble?It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are we in, and when will each one burst?The debate over whether AI represents a transformative technology or an economic time bomb has reached a fever pitch. Even tech leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged evidence of an unstable financial bubble forming around AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates see clear bubble dy

TechCrunch Mobility: ‘Physical AI’ enters the hype machine

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” 

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES

Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising and striking commercial deals.

Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT

Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.

TNW Weekly Briefing

Legislation and digital policy European Commission opens call for evidence on Open Digital Ecosystems Signal: The EU is preparing a structural shift toward open, interoperable digital infrastructure. This marks a move from regulating dominant platforms to actively shaping alternatives and reducing strategic dependency. DMA and DSA enter an enforcement-heavy phase in 2026 Signal: Europe’s digital laws have moved from principle to execution. Compliance, fines, litigation, and operational constrain

Mother of Elon Musk’s son sues his xAI over AI-deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI on Wednesday, alleging that the company’s AI ...

3 Tesla owners react to Elon Musk's FSD change

Tesla owners' reactions to Elon Musk's announcement that FSD would only be available for $99 a month ranged from frustration ...

Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)

As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own.

Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we’re not talking about

While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars, it’s worth remembering there are no oceans or mountains or chirpy birds in space. It's “not nice up there,” said Rubenstein. “It is not nice at all."

Elon Musk Gets Into X Fight With Budget Airline

"Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge," Musk asked on the social media platform.

Elon Musk Calls Ryanair CEO 'An Utter Idiot,' Floats Buying the Company

Elon Musk is musing about acquiring Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ:RYAAY) following a heated online disagreement with Ryanair ...

Elon Musk, the World's Richest Person, Believes Retirement Savings 'Won't Matter' in an AI-Driven Future

Billionaire Elon Musk believes saving money for retirement won't matter in a decade or two thanks to artificial intelligence.

Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft

OpenAI gained between $65.5 billion and $109.4 billion from the billionaire entrepreneur's contributions when he was ...

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd ...

Mother of Elon Musk's child sues his AI company over sexual deepfake images created by Grok

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually ...

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works weren't about a single breakthrough model. Instead, they challenged fundamental assumptions that academicians and corporations have quietly relied on: Bigger models mean better reasoning, RL creates new capabilities, attention is “solved” and generative models inevitably memorize.This year’s top

Trump administration’s legal setbacks are good news for offshore wind — and the grid

Three offshore wind projects under construction on the U.S. East Coast are back to building after judges rebuked the Department of the Interior's actions.