IT総合 Buy now, pay later . . . for a burrito?
In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on...
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IT総合 IT総合 Jonah Peretti helped shaped digital media — can he do it again?
Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has...
IT総合 Charlie Javice trial becomes a master class in hubris for both sides
Charlie Javice’s high-profile fraud trial has become a showcase of embarrassing missteps on both sides, with eyebrow-rai...
IT総合 TechCrunch has personal news!
If you haven’t heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home. After years under Yahoo’s ownership — which, in tu...
IT総合 Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator
Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at the famed accelerator Y Combinator, he is ...
IT総合 Travis Kalanick wants to do a lot more than develop more ghost kitchens
Last week, at the Abundance Summit in Los Angeles, billionaire entrepreneur Travis Kalanick gave attendees a rare glimps...
IT総合 VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major conseque...
IT総合 Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone
Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic l...
IT総合 Travis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: “Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product”
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its a...
IT総合 Google has given Anthropic more funding than previously known, show new filings
Anthropic, a San Francisco startup often cast as an independent player in the AI race, has deeper ties to Google than pr...
IT総合 Yet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest round
The intersection of robotics and AI continues to attract attention from investors and Big Tech alike. The latest indicat...
IT総合 Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, posting an unexpected offer ...
IT総合 General Catalyst is reportedly weighing a potential IPO
General Catalyst, the powerhouse venture firm, is considering an IPO, Axios reported Friday morning, citing “multi...
IT総合 Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE
Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department ...
IT総合 Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)
Billy McFarland is back, with Fyre Festival 2. Scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres, Mexico from May 30 to June 2, ti...
IT総合 Holmes and Balwani’s appeal falls flat as court upholds fraud convictions
Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani’s appeals to overturn their fraud convictions and reduce their prison senten...
IT総合 The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming
Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one ar...
IT総合 The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online
We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have g...
IT総合 Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s...
IT総合 xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer raises health questions in Memphis
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to continue using 15 gas turbines to power its “Colossus” supercomput...
IT総合 DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home
DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up ...
IT総合 Dub: the copy trading app that has teens talking
Social media changed everything from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing thro...
IT総合 As demand for data centers soars, real estate companies look to become energy developers
Brendan Wallace has a lot on his mind lately. Wallace is the co-founder of Fifth Wall Ventures, a nine-year-old proptech...
IT総合 Wall Street banks plan sale of X debt at a discount
Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 million...
IT総合 At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel
An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned...
IT総合 This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains
You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spi...
IT総合 The CIA’s first CTO, Nand Mulchandani, prepares for the Trump administration
In April 2022, the CIA decided to swipe right on Nand Mulchandani, appointing him as its first-ever Chief Technology Off...
IT総合 People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats....
IT総合 Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 ...
IT総合 Nvidia’s next move: powering humanoid robots
The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, it’s launching a new gener...