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The technological acceleration era has started, and it is gaining steam in innovation and capability almost weekly. Artificial intelligence has evolved from a specialized tool or a far-off promise to the cognitive foundation of contemporary civilization. AI is changing the way we produce value, make decisions, and engage with the outside world, just like electricity

In Brief Posted: 2:46 PM PDT · August 22, 2026 Image Credits:Malte Mueller / Getty Images As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs.…

Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told TechCrunch that they were baffled. On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I were similarly puzzled by the news. Yes, VC conflicts-of-interest are worth…

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn’t take much to get past the restriction…

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 million…

Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky — bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray —…

David Capablanca, trader with Friendly Bear University. Author of “Short Selling Master.” gettyShort selling is a strategy that anticipates a stock’s decline due to overvaluation. This approach is inherently riskier than long trading, as long traders can only lose their investment, whereas short sellers can lose more than the sum in their accounts because prices…

Nevada, get ready for the robotaxis. The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved three permits Thursday that will allow Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to operate commercial robotaxi services in Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Together, these permits would deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis across the county over the next 12 months. Tesla’s permit allows it…

Image Credits:Micro1 5:13 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups. One of these fast-growing businesses is Micro1, a four-year-old startup that expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500…

Mark Wallin, President and GM at Phillips Connect, drives the future of freight through AI, automation and connected trailer tech. gettyOne of the costliest technology problems I see has nothing to do with the technology itself. In my world, it looks like this: A maintenance team spends two years building a vehicle monitoring system across…