Networking shouldn’t mean walking into a crowded room and hoping you happen to meet the right person. At TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, founders and VCs have several ways to make the connections they build beyond the sessions more intentional. On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a…
Image Credits:Brandon Dill for The Washington Post / Getty Images 2:17 PM PDT · October 31, 2026 A federal judge denied a motion by xAI seeking to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit accusing the SpaceX-owned company of failing to obtain permits needed to operate the gas turbines powering its Colossus data center outside Memphis. Suing on…
Dr. Manish Pratap Singh Chandel is the head of human resources at Fabtech International Ltd. gettyAn organization’s emotional quotient (OEQ) is its collective ability to understand, manage and positively influence emotions within teams, across functions and in relationships with employees, customers and stakeholders. It can be a powerful bridge between trust, performance and belongingness. But…
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom…
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In Brief Posted: 4:21 PM PDT · October 30, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images Salesforce has agreed to acquire Rune Technologies, a startup that builds AI software to help the U.S. military predict supply needs and manage logistics from the field, for $375 million in cash and stock, Resilience Media reported. The…
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Steve Durbin is Chief Executive of Information Security Forum. He is a frequent speaker on the Board’s role in cybersecurity and technology. gettyOnly a minority (14.4%) of enterprises have obtained full security and IT approval before deploying AI agents, according to a Gravitee survey. This is a matter of concern. I believe the AI-led disruption…
Jim Stevenson, CEO and Founder of Bletchley Group. gettyMany software companies would grow faster if they stopped asking customers to use their software. If that sounds like heresy, consider a company like Snorkel AI. It began life selling software that automated data labeling, the painstaking work of preparing data to train AI models. Then it…
4:44 PM PDT · October 29, 2026 It’s been four years since Amazon bought MGM for $8.5 billion. But coming off the blockbuster success of this year’s hit movie Project Hail Mary, Hollywood has become a lucrative business for the e-commerce giant. Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, “has emerged as a significant business with a…





