Топ-10 технологий на 2025-10-29
1. Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia’s Roelof Botha | TechCrunch
Описание: Sequoia’s managing partner Roelof Botha noted that there are currently 3,000 venture firms in the United States, while there were just 1,000 when he joined Sequoia 20 years ago.
2. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
Описание: The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
3. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Описание: xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikip…
4. CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot | TechCrunch
Описание: Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don’t work out, and that’s okay.
5. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek
Описание: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a 3-4 day workweek because of AI.
6. Roelof Botha explains why Sequoia supports Shaun Maguire after COO quit | TechCrunch
Описание: Sequoia’s managing partner Roelof Botha defended his colleague’s controversial comments that sparked an online backlash, arguing that the VC firm needs “spiky” people.
7. Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
Описание: After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo charac…
8. AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
Описание: AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak…
9. MacroCycle found a shortcut for plastic recycling — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Описание: MacroCycle’s approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially lowering costs to the point where it could compete with virgin plastic.
10. Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025
Описание: Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025techcrunch.com