CapitalOct 25, 2026 · 12:42 AM ET · Marginal Revolution Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building Forge, supporting overlooked, self-taught young founders with shared housing, capital, and access. Dev Goyal received a grant for SCRIPT, exploring whether stylus-based drawing...
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Capital item; Topics: equity, real estate; Source: Marginal Revolution.
CapitalOct 24, 2026 · 11:57 AM ET · Marginal Revolution Here’s the first part of my theory: cybercriminals are not the organized geniuses we implicitly imagine. Anyone building a criminal gang has to find candidates willing to forgo more stable opportunities in the formal economy. My modeling estimated that something like 720,000 people are involved in the online criminal economy, 90% of them in scam […] The post Why are cybersecurity losses not worse...
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: Capital item; Topics: real estate; Source: Marginal Revolution.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 4:57 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.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 3:06 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Hosted 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.
BuildersOct 23, 2026 · 12:26 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups Daytona 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.
AIOct 23, 2026 · 12:51 AM ET · Marginal Revolution From Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Will AI poison the public finances of many modern states? There is a real risk that it will. Yesterday, I circulated a new paper, “Saving for the Machines,” which makes a simple point. Building the AI transformation will require enormous investment. The only way to induce agents to save for that investment […] The post Will bystander economies be able to finance...
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, real estate; Source: Marginal Revolution.
BuildersOct 21, 2026 · 5:16 PM ET · TechCrunch Startups TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: real estate; Source: TechCrunch Startups.
AIOct 21, 2026 · 1:01 AM ET · Latent Space Paying for outcomes, building with agents, and the last mile of enterprise AI adoption
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, real estate; Source: Latent Space.
BuildersOct 19, 2026 · 2:58 PM ET · Y Combinator Blog Ryder flew to SF for a work trial, moved furniture in a Mystery Machine bus, and decided to stay. Here's what building from day one looks like.
Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: Builders item; Topics: real estate; Source: Y Combinator Blog.
AIOct 17, 2026 · 5:11 PM ET · Simon Willison Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline If you define a shortcut function like this: $=(...n)=>document.currentScript.replaceWith(...n) You get a tiny template language: The year is Tags: javascript
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: real estate; Source: Simon Willison.
AIOct 16, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET · OpenAI News With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.
Builder score 50Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: real estate; Source: OpenAI News.
ASML is building a hybrid bonding tool! The company has not announced anything yet, but its patent filings, a news report and its own roadmap all suggest so.
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