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Latest picks · Oct 24
Every item the judge picked, grouped by day, newest day first.
- Infrastructure8:01 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: small business, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter).
- Builders4:57 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.Infrastructure3:06 PM ET · SemiAnalysisTrainium Best for Inference? But now good for Training too, Native Trainium PyTorch, High Quality CI, TorchTitan, GPU Impossible Profiler
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: compute, chips; Source: SemiAnalysis.Builders3:06 PM ET · TechCrunch StartupsHosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.Builders12:26 PM ET · TechCrunch StartupsDaytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says.
Builder score 100Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: agents, equity, real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups. - AI1:40 PM ET · Latent Space
Elastic GPUs, sandbox growth, and the economics of the agent cloud
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: AI item; Topics: compute, agents, chips; Source: Latent Space.Builders10:59 AM ET · TechCrunch StartupsHelion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.
Builder score 83Why it scoresRules judge pick: Builders item; Topics: energy, chips; Source: TechCrunch Startups. - Infrastructure3:31 PM ET · Latent Space
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
Builder score 92Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: compute, chips, policy; Source: Latent Space. - Infrastructure8:03 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
Icon’s fundraising, employment in China’s solar industry, grid-scale battery reliability, Tesla’s flying roadster, and more.
Builder score 92Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: energy, labor share, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter). - Infrastructure10:55 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
Propane in air conditioners, Anduril making submarine parts, nuclear reactors on the moon, the robotic hand landscape, and more.
Builder score 92Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: automation, energy, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter). - Infrastructure10:01 AM ET · a16z
And how America will power the next wave of growth
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: compute, energy; Source: a16z. - Infrastructure6:17 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
ASML’s lack of European sales, a California distributed power plant, Starlink as a planetary barometer, and more.
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: energy, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter). - Infrastructure5:20 PM ET · SemiAnalysis
In gory detail: reliability, performance, support, pricing—and, of course, security—in our most thorough analysis of GPU cloud providers globally.
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: compute, chips; Source: SemiAnalysis. - Infrastructure8:03 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
AirBnB’s housing accelerator, rising steel prices, a resurgence of US coal power, low-head dams, and more.
Builder score 92Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: chips, energy, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter). - Infrastructure1:04 PM ET · SemiAnalysis
The $11T AI Buildout, Nvidia’s Backstop Economics, and the Limits of Nvidia’s Balance Sheet
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: chips, policy; Source: SemiAnalysis. - Infrastructure8:03 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
Sinking London homes, US magnesium manufacturing, the World Humanoid Robot games, catastrophic flooding in Nepal, and more.
Builder score 75Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: automation, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter).
