Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch.
Back in 2009, the tech Zaharia developed for his PhD at UC Berkeley, under the tutelage of famed professor Ion Stoica, was launched into Databricks.
Zaharia had created a way to dramatically speed…
Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications.
This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open beta. Remix allows enterprises to turn the data and information stored in…
Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon.
Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge…
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip.
This deal is a bit less about a long-term threat to Nvidia than it…
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For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto…
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.
The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched…
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek
April 7, 2026
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning mechanisms like public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic…
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
April 7, 2026
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify…
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers. Now, with artificial intelligence top of mind for business, one Spanish startup is trying to become the go-to source of ground truth…
Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands.
As president of the investment bank Rainmaker Securities, whose focus includes private securities markets – it facilitates transactions in roughly 1,000…
