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His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.

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Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor’s determination. Watch as founder and former CEO…

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Spain Courts China in New Asia Strategy as US Ties Sour

2 weeks ago01 mins

Spain is planning to build more political and financial links to China as US President Donald Trump upends the global economic order. Image: Bk Aguilar / Pexels Source: Bloomberg

Ford is fighting against physics to build affordable EVs

2 weeks ago01 mins

To say that Ford has struggled to make profitable electric vehicles would be an understatement. The company recently pulled the plug on its F-150 Lightning, a truck once heralded as the most important EV ever made, after taking a staggering $19.5 billion hit on its EV investments in 2026. A new focus on hybrids and…

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New Israeli housing plan near Jerusalem slammed as ‘disguised annexation’

3 weeks ago01 mins

Israel plans to build thousands of settlement homes near Jerusalem, in effect expanding city's borders, activists say. Image: KASONGO BULOBO / Unsplash Source: Al Jazeera

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Alphabet calls out new AI-related risks, as it taps debt market to fund build-out

3 weeks ago01 mins

In Alphabet’s annual report, the company said AI poses business risks, including its potential impact on advertising. Image: Axel Ruffini / Unsplash Source: CNBC

Trump’s new ‘Buy American’ requirement for EV charging would dramatically curtail build-out

4 weeks ago01 mins

It seems clear at this point to say that Donald Trump does not want to spend a single dime on EV charging. He tried to freeze $5 billion in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which was approved as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. And when a federal judge ordered the…

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OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

4 weeks ago01 mins

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees. Image: Zac Wolff / Unsplash Source: TechCrunch

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OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

1 month ago01 mins

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week. Image: Mriganka Majumder / Pexels Source: TechCrunch

OpenAI launches new enterprise platform in bid to win more business customers

1 month ago01 mins

Frontier can work with OpenAI agents, enterprise-build agents, as well as agents from third parties like Google, Microsoft and Anthropic. Image: Zac Wolff / Unsplash Source: CNBC

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The AI Arms Race Escalates: xAI’s Record $20 Billion Haul Reshapes Tech’s Future

2 months ago04 mins

Introduction The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a seismic shift, powered by unprecedented capital. Elon Musk’s xAI has secured a staggering $20 billion in its latest funding round, a figure that not only shatters records but signals a new, capital-intensive phase in the race to build superintelligent machines. This monumental influx, with tech titan…