Volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 isn’t just about getting free entry (although a free three-day pass is a pretty cool perk). It’s your chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s largest startup conferences is built, and connect with the people shaping the future of tech while you’re at it. Whether
For most people, knowledge of what the work life of healthcare workers is like comes primarily from two limited points of view: watching television shows and experiencing care for their own patients. The same is true even for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Farris reminds us at the beginning of
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A 4-month-old child comes to the clinic with fever and nasal congestion. Vyonne Njeri thinks it’s just a cold. Then a yellow box appears on your computer telling you to check your heart, because your heart rate is elevated. Njeri is a registered clinical officer in Nairobi, Kenya; she sees patients alone like a nurse
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, about 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled. The first salvo in OpenAI’s spending spree will be a $20 billion data center
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest open-weight LLM available, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that are not authorized for export to China. “Large-scale covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing patented American technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”
