Month: August 2025

Elad Gil — one of tech’s sharpest minds — on early bets, breakout growth, and what’s coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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Elad Gil isn’t just ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil was writing early checks into companies like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. And that’s just a slice of the story. His track record includes seed or Series A investments in … Read more

How Coral Protocol Proved Small Models Can Outperform Big Tech’s AI Systems

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Is Bigger Always Better in AI? Coral Protocol Challenges That Idea Head-On Why are we still chasing larger and larger models in artificial intelligence? That is the question Coral Protocol set out to answer. In a performance test using the GAIA Benchmark, Coral’s system outperformed Microsoft-backed Magnetic-UI by a margin of 34 percent. Not by … Read more

How Amazon Bedrock powers next-generation account planning at AWS

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At AWS, our sales teams create customer-focused documents called account plans to deeply understand each AWS customer’s unique goals and challenges, helping account teams provide tailored guidance and support that accelerates customer success on AWS. As our business has expanded, the account planning process has become more intricate, requiring detailed analysis, reviews, and cross-team alignment … Read more

Superintelligence Has The Potential to Begin a New Era of Personal Empowerment

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Pictured above https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/, Republished in full here with permission from Meta. Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. It seems clear that in the coming years, AI will improve all our … Read more

ProShares Debuts ‘Ultra CRCL’ ETF, Letting Traders Double Down on Circle Stock

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Exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider ProShares has launched a new product that aims to double the daily performance of Circle’s (CRCL) stock, giving traders a way to make leveraged bets on one of the most prominent companies in crypto finance. The ProShares Ultra CRCL ETF (CRCA) began trading Thursday, just weeks after Circle went public on … Read more