Sessions featuring Howard Wright (Nvidia), Rob Chu (AWS), and Eric Benhamou (Benhamou Global Ventures) cut through the noise to examine where AI is genuinely deployed at scale and where the real risks lie.
Japanet Holdings has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinary paper returns.
Delphi allows anyone to create a market on any topic, from bitcoin price targets to sports outcomes, with AI models managing the settlement process instead of traditional oracles.
An attacker exploited KelpDAO's cross-chain bridge on April 18, stealing 116,500 restaked ETH worth roughly $292 million. The breach triggered more than $13 billion in DeFi TVL outflows within 48 hours, hitting Aave, Compound, Morpho, and at least 9 other protocols.
The SusHi Tech Challenge Grand Prix recipient will be automatically entered into the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield Top 200 - making them eligible to pitch on one of the most coveted stages in the startup world.
"In the legacy cloud, too many custom modifications to OpenStack made upgrades difficult. Flava adopts an architecture that stays aligned with upstream OpenStack. We keep custom patches to a minimum, and when functional changes are needed, we proactively contribute them upstream so they can be merged into the main project."
Doordash plans to integrate stablecoin payouts for its gig workers, known as Dashers, through the Tempo blockchain, which is designed specifically for stablecoin payments and real-world settlement.
Uber has teamed up with UK self-driving car startup Wayve and Nissan to launch a pilot program for a robotaxi service in Tokyo in late 2026. The program will use Nissan Leaf EVs powered by Wayve's AI Driver automated vehicle technology, which will then be connected to Uber's platform. Trained drivers will be behind the wheel at first, as the deployed vehicles gather real-world data to be able to navigate Tokyo's driving conditions and complex streets.
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