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AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race

Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to $1 million into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking…

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria joins Disrupt 2026 |

The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life. Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement,…

If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already

In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results,…

Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026 |

Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers worldwide. After scaling Twilio into a public…

Zettabyte and Raku Advanced Tech Sign MOU on Green AI Data Centers Across Asia

The collaboration combines Zettabyte’s compute operations with Raku Advanced Tech’s energy and data center build-out, starting in Taiwan and Thailand. , /PRNewswire/ — Zettabyte, a…

Final 24 hours to exhibit at Disrupt 2026 |

Exhibit table bookings close tonight, Friday, September 18, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, you cannot add your startup to the Expo Hall. Tables are…

Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream

Uh oh, we got a cute alert! It’s Bezzy, your adorable, cuddly, anthropomorphized server-rack and stuffed-animal friend! Give this soft lil’ doll a squeeze, and…

Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into superhot-rock geothermal |

5:02 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh…

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior |

OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes…

/C O R R E C T I O N — Paula’s Choice/

/C O R R E C T I O N – Paula’s Choice/ In the news release, Paula’s Choice Launches Its New Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping…