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This is it. The countdown is almost over. You now have until tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT to lock in Early Bird savings of up to $410 forTechCrunch Disrupt 2026before prices increase. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, this is your final chance to secure the lowest available rates before the next price jump hits. Once the deadline passes, so do the savings. Register nowand join 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and innovators at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15 for three days packed with networking, startup discovery, and conversations shaping the future of tech.Bring a plus-one at 50%, orbring a group to get an up to 30% discount. TechCrunch Disrupt is where startup momentum accelerates. The event brings together the people actively building, funding, and scaling what’s next across AI, fintech, SaaS, climate, cybersecurity, consumer tech, and beyond. Attendees come to Disrupt for: With300+ exhibiting startups,Startup Battlefield 200, curated networking experiences, and multiple stages of programming, Disrupt is built to help attendees make meaningful connections and real business progress. Disrupt is designed for founders raising capital, investors sourcing opportunities, operators scaling companies, and innovators looking for an edge. Whether you’re launching your next startup, growing your network, or tracking the future of technology, Disrupt puts you in the room with the people driving the industry forward. Every year, Disrupt brings together hundreds of influential voices across startups and venture capital. Past speakers have included leaders from the companies and firms shaping the future of AI, enterprise software, fintech, consumer tech, and more. This year will deliver the same high-caliber experience, with200+ sessionsacross six industry-focused stages, plus roundtables and breakouts covering scaling, AI, fintech, infrastructure, robotics, and emerging technologies.Explore the growing agendato see the latest sessions and speaker announcements. Speakers include: Early Bird savings of up to $410 end tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, ticket prices increase. Register nowto secure your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass at a low rate before the deadline expires. Bringing more than just you?Save 50% on a second ticket, or up to30% on community passes.

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Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

Google parent company Alphabet said Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to help pay for the massive AI infrastructure buildout it has planned. Alphabet will sell off that amount in stock and will then use the funds to pay for “general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute,” the company saidin a statement. Part of the plan involves selling $10 billion in stock to Berkshire Hathaway, the massive global holding company formerly led by Warren Buffett. “The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply,” Alphabet said in its statement. “By scaling its investments, the company seeks to expand its foundational infrastructure to support the significant growth opportunity ahead.” The company added that the stock plan represented a way to “fund its investments in a balanced way while retaining a healthy balance sheet.” Like other tech giants, Google has announced plans for a massive investment in compute this year, the likes of which will be used to support a flurry ofnew AI services. At Google I/O last month, CEO Sundar Pichaisaid thatthe company expects to spend between $180 billion and $190 billion on capex before the year is out. Google and other tech giants areexpected to spendas much as $700 billion this year on AI capex.

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Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

SpaceX has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company’s access to a potentially scarce resource: water. The company, which now includes Elon Musk’s AI play, xAI, wrote in anamended version of the filingon Monday that access to water — required to cool its data centers — is just as important as SpaceX’s ability to secure power, processors, and other critical resources. The addition comes amid an ever-evolving debate about how much water data centers use, and whether that usage is contributing to localized droughts that are being made worse by climate change. Deep in the “risk factors” section of SpaceX’s IPO filing, the company added language about water to a section about the challenges of scaling AI infrastructure. Previously, SpaceX focused on telling investors that its data centers were primarily constrained by access to “power at economically feasible prices,” along with long construction timelines and material shortages. The amended filing adds multiple lines about water access. SpaceX now tells prospective investors in the IPO that data center buildouts are constrained by the “availability of power and water at economically feasible prices.” The company goes on to say that “significant water resources may be required for cooling large-scale data center operations.” Water availability is such a concern that SpaceX says it has become a “critical consideration in data center site selection, development and operations.” SpaceX also says that “water scarcity, drought conditions, competition for local water resources, or regulatory restrictions on water use could limit our ability to obtain sufficient water for cooling, constrain data center cooling capacity, increase our costs, delay or limit expansion of our data center infrastructure, or require us to implement alternative cooling techniques that may be more costly or less available.” It’s not clear what inspired SpaceX to add this language about water to its filing, or why it was left out of the initial version. The company is in the pre-IPO period, during which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been sending SpaceX “comment letters”seeking clarification or additional details about the filing. It’s possible that questions from the SEC led to this particular change, though we won’t know until those comment letters are made public in the weeks following the IPO. Adding more detail about SpaceX’s access to water was not the only change the company made in this first amended filing. SpaceX also revealed that it is setting aside up to 5% of the stock being sold in the IPO foremployees and friends of executives. SpaceX also added language that warns investors that the company mayissue a “significant” numberof shares in future transactions following the IPO — a hint at a potential merger with Tesla — which could create dilution for existing shareholders.

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Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by the Florida Attorney General on Monday, in a first-of-its-kind state litigation effort over ChatGPT’s alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as it has sought to prioritize winning “the AI arms race and amass large fortunes.” “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” said Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.” “Because of Defendants’ misrepresentations about ChatGPT and their careless introduction of ChatGPT to Florida and the world, mass shooters have been aided and abetted in deadly rampages, vulnerable people have been encouraged into suicide, professionals have suffered public humiliation, users have lost critical thinking skills, and minors have become addicted to a tool that feigns human compassion to collect their data with no parental oversight,” the83-page lawsuitclaims. The Florida Attorney General’s office launcheda criminal investigationinto the company in April. That probe sought to determine what role ChatGPT may have played in a mass shooting that took place last year at Florida State University. Prior to the attack, the shooter is alleged to have consulted the chatbot. OpenAI has also beensued in a civil suitby the family of one of the victims of that shooting. OpenAI has previously denied responsibility for the Florida shooting. “Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” an OpenAI spokespersonpreviously told NBC News. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment. OpenAI justconcluded a different legal caseinvolving former co-founder Elon Musk, who sued the company in 2024, accusing it of having betrayed its original mission to help humanity by converting the organization into a for-profit business. The case concluded after the jury swiftly decided that Musk had waited to long to file the case and that thestatute of limitations had passed. This is only the latest legal case that has attempted to link ChatGPT to violent deaths. Last year, OpenAIwas suedby the parents of Adam Raine, a California teen who took his own life after discussing suicide with the chatbot. In that case, ChatGPT allegedly offered “technical specifications” for various suicide methods, despite also referring him to mental health resources. Other lawsuits — including ones alleging the chatbot’sculpability in suicides,stalking, andmurder— are ongoing.

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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it. The super-fast, 1-petaflop chip is designed to run AI agents like OpenClaw or Hermes Agent securely, according to Nvidia. Such RTX Spark Windows PCs will be available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and Gigabyte to follow. In addition to being equipped with secure sandboxes (jointly developed with Microsoft) to run agents securely, the PCs will also have enough CPU, GPU, RAM and underlying Nvidia CUDA software to run local versions of large language models. Nvidia said that its RTX technology will deliver faster performance for AI, better image quality, and support for AI features in more than 1,000 games and applications. The chipmaker is marketing this as an alternative for creators making AI content, as well as providing a significant upgrade to its traditional market of gamers. Nvidia said more than 100 Windows software makers have signed on to support the new chip, including Adobe, Blender, ComfyUI, Riot Games and Xbox. But Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s vision for these new PCs is far larger. He wants to end the days of launching apps, pointing, clicking and typing. “With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work,” he said in the press release. “Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop.” Last month, after delivering another record quarter, Huang promised investors he had found a new$200 billion market for Nvidia in selling CPUsfor AI, not just GPUs. He made specific mention of the high-end server CPU released earlier this year called Vera — of which Nvidia says it has already sold $20 billion worth. He also hinted at his bigger ambitions. “We’ll have billions of agents, and those billions of agents will all use tools. And those tools are going to be like PCs, just like us humans using using PCs today,” he said on the earnings call in May. “We’re going to need a lot more CPUs.” Nvidia ARM-based Windows devices have been tried before — and failed. Back in 2013,Microsoft famously had to write off $900 millionon its Nvidia ARM-based Surface RT, with partners like Dell also bailing on the product. But at this point, after delivering record after record of quarterly revenue, it’s hard to bet against Huang as he pursues his PC dreams once again. And this chip is an entirely different beast. It’s more powerful, not less. Microsoft is positioning its own RTX Spark PC as so mighty that it named it the Surface Laptop Ultra, and iscalling it“the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.” Still, PC manufacturers have not released a lot of specifics about each of their offerings, including pricing. These systems appear to be full-fledged Windows versions of theDGX Spark mini-computerthat Nvidia already sells to developers for about $4,800. We’ll have to wait and see if these PCs will compete on price with the affordable Mac Mini that has becomea popular choice for running OpenClaw. Or perhaps they will sit at the high end of the PC market, like Nvidia’s own agent-running mini computer. Either way, if Nvidia has cracked the code on bringing AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

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Final 24 hours to save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

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Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

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