For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator founder he could find on LinkedIn until one gave him an angel check for his first company at age 17.  

That company, now the YC-backed Nozomio, is an API index for AI agents — a tool that helps AI agents find and use software services — and has raised more than $6 million in funding to date. “I either win or lose, and a lot of young founders have the same mindset,” he told TechCrunch. “They just want to win.”

Young founders like Rakhmetzhanov are building under a new set of pressures. Investors are throwing more capital at them, yet the expectation to hit that “north star” milestone — the one big number investors are chasing — hasn’t relaxed, and every misstep along the way is now publicly dissected on social media.

While Silicon Valley VCs have always famously loved backing young college dropout founders, they preferred to see them paired with technical founders, or at least to have some experience — ideally with a FAANG company (Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) — on their résumés. In many ways, that is still very true. But AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

Pranjali Awasthi, 19, is an example of that. She dropped out of high school to launch an AI startup, then attended Georgia Tech before dropping out of that, too, to launch Slashy, a YC-backed startup that bills itself as the “Cursor for emails” and helps consumers manage their email inboxes. After more than a year running that company, she recently announced she’s now building yet a new startup currently in stealth.  

When she was younger, around 14 or 15, she recalled, investors whom she would pitch often asked why she was looking to build a company. “It’s gotten more normal now,” she said, “post-18.”   

It seems more than ever, investors look to founders like Awasthi, whose experiences can be traced through “GitHub activity, open-source contributions, communities they’ve already built, and familiarity with all the latest tools in AI,” Ashley Smith, a general partner at the early-stage firm Vermilion, told TechCrunch. “A lot of young developers learn how to build software through contributing to open-source projects or toying around with the latest AI tooling,” she explained. “They have more time to do that while in college or younger than someone with a full-time job and a mortgage.”

Smith said a “meaningful” share of her portfolio consists of companies founded by those under 30, with a handful even younger than 21, she said, adding that she’s “clearly not skeptical of youth.”  

“What they lack in experience, they make up for in excitement to experiment and lack of fear,” she continued.

But she admits the market has become more merciless. “It doesn’t give you room to learn slowly anymore,” she said. There are more funding opportunities than ever, regardless of age — accelerators, incubators, pre-seed funds. But that money comes with strings attached: Founders like Rakhmetzhanov and Awasthi, flush with millions in cash, are expected to deliver growth in months, not years.

“The forgiveness that used to exist at an early stage and the assumption you’d iterate your way to product-market fit doesn’t exist right now,” Smith continued. “Everyone is looking for the next Cursor, even though that growth trajectory is an outlier, not the norm.”

For many founders — especially those building in public — the relentless strain to succeed can lead to murky ethical territory, or even predatory deal terms, since younger founders are often too new to the game to know what’s standard, yet ambitious enough to chase growth at all costs. To keep up, revenue numbers start to look inflated, while content creation for social media starts to crowd out writing good code. The excessive posturing is perhaps inevitable, since getting attention is now harder than ever in a crowded AI market.

It’s all about who can convince “the most people [they] are smarter than everyone else in the space,” Smith said, “and make the most noise about it.”

“In 2004, you could quietly iterate for years without anyone watching,” Awasthi added. “Now there is this constant ambient pressure from LinkedIn and Twitter where every raise, every milestone, every pivot is public.”

That means some young founders aren’t just worried about hitting competitive revenue marks or funding valuations — they’re also under pressure to perform the appearance of being a successful founder. That pressure has always existed in startup culture, but founders say it’s grown more extreme. “If you’re a startup and you’re competing in a market, usually you worry about incumbents,” Timothy Chen, an investor at Essence Ventures, told TechCrunch. “Now you worry about your neighbors.”

For example, “everybody’s doing shiny, good-looking launch videos,” he noted. “It wasn’t even a thing three years ago.” The trend was popularized by Cluely founder Roy Lee, now around age 22, whose startup initially promised to help students cheat on exams — a premise that dazzled investors like Andreessen Horowitz and helped the company raise $20 million.

Though Cluely is now more of a note-taking tool, Lee became a face of young Silicon Valley talent. “The pressure is coming from, ‘I need to show off much better, quick,’” Chen continued.  

Not hitting the bar has bred new anxiety. “When Zuck was building Facebook, there wasn’t this huge negative social ecosystem,” Aidan Guo, 20, told TechCrunch. He’s the co-founder of the AI desktop assistant startup Attention Engineering, which has raised around $1.6 million in funding to date.

Much of the strain, as he describes it, is self-imposed. “You already have a constant fear of failure on your mind. You have to steer the ship and learn all these things as you go. And everything can always go wrong at once,” he continued. “And then you have all these people piling on anything you do wrong. I think people need to be more empathetic.” 

Amid all that pressure, Awasthi takes a page from the old days. “If you focus your time on what needs to get done, it’s not too hard,” she said.

“The best product that stays active and talks to customers wins,” Rakhmetzhanov added.

In the end, all the founders are describing the same thing: The fundamentals of a good startup haven’t changed — “conviction, intellectual honesty, and obsession with the customer,” as Smith put it. None of that has anything to do with age.  

Today’s Strands puzzle was kind of tough, with some really long clues to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on.

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: “As if!”

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Ha ha!

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

• PERT, SUET, ROLL, ROLLS, BADE, TREE, POTS, SPOT, TOPS

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight, but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

• SILLY, ABSURD, LAUGHABLE, LUDICROUS, PREPOSTEROUS

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is GETREAL. To find it, start with the G that’s the first letter on the top row, and wind diagonally down.

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Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating

Cloud infrastructure services grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure.

According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure passed $143 billion in Q2, a year-on-year growth rate of 43 percent. This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size.

Synergy says that total market revenues for the preceding 12 months add up to an impressive $500 billion. Public IaaS and PaaS platforms account for the bulk of this, and these expanded by 47 percent during Q2.

While cloud-based services have been growing at quite a decent rate for some time as organizations expand their IT using this route, the introduction of AI services has given them an extra boost.

“AI has, of course, driven most of that incremental growth, and we now see year-on-year growth rates of 165 percent for AI-specific cloud services. It is the handful of leading cloud providers and neoclouds who are mostly benefiting from that market acceleration,” comments Synergy chief analyst John Dinsdale.

And the top three global players continue to dominate the market, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud together accounting for 67 percent of all the cloud revenue during the quarter.

That percentage has increased since the third quarter of last year, when the triumvirate made up 63 percent of enterprise cloud infra spending.

AWS is still the largest beast in this sector of the compute arena, taking 28 percent of the market, but its lead over Microsoft is now less impressive, with the Redmond giant making up another 20 percent. Google remains in third place on the global stage, at 15 percent.

Among the tier two cloud providers, Synergy reckons those with the highest growth rates include CoreWeave, Oracle, Crusoe, Nebius, and Nscale. However, Oracle accounts for 4 percent of market share, while CoreWeave is another 2 percent.

Other firms with a market share of 1 percent (to the nearest percentage point) include IBM, Akamai, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Snowflake, Tencent, and SAP.

Synergy says that nine rent-a-gpu neocloud operators are now among the top 40 cloud providers, based on service revenue.

Geographically, the US remains the world’s largest cloud market by some margin, and its share is actually increasing, growing by 49 percent in Q2, well above the worldwide average. Other countries growing at above the average include India, Indonesia, Ireland, Thailand, and Malaysia. In Europe, the largest cloud markets remain the UK and Germany, but the fastest growing markets are Ireland, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.®

Every year, Apple adds a handful of camera features to the iPhone Pro line that sound impressive on paper but change almost nothing about how the phone is actually used. ProRes RAW is not one of those features.

It’s the first time a smartphone has shipped with true RAW video capture, and after spending real time pulling iPhone 17 Pro Max footage into DaVinci Resolve, I don’t think that claim is marketing spin.

What ProRes RAW actually gives you

Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a long one today. Read on for all the answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Coffee choice before bed
Answer: DECAF

6A clue: Recurring bug?
Answer: CICADA

7A clue: California’s most valuable crop, just barely edging out grapes
Answer: ALMONDS

8A clue: Fist pound
Answer: DAP

9A clue: Back of a soccer goal
Answer: NET

10A clue: Carefully thought (over)
Answer: MULLED

12A clue: Brain sparks
Answer: IDEAS

13A clue: Something that might end after “Pencils down!”
Answer: TEST

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Indentations at the end of a smile
Answer: DIMPLES

2D clue: Green: Prefix
Answer: ECO

3D clue: Film festival with the Palme d’Or
Answer: CANNES

4D clue: No ___ sugar (product claim)
Answer: ADDED

5D clue: Speedy
Answer: FAST

6D clue: Anthropic’s A.I. assistant
Answer: CLAUDE

7D clue: Own up to
Answer: ADMIT

11D clue: Back muscle, for short
Answer: LAT

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Inkling-Small matches or exceeds Inkling on reasoning and agentic tasks, the company said.

Nvidia-backed Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled a new open-weights model that performs “comparabl[y]” to Inkling, but at one-quarter of its size.

The company launched its first AI model Inkling earlier this month following a mega partnership with Nvidia that gave Thinking Machines access to GB300 NVL72 systems for training. The chipmaker also made a significant investment into the AI company.

Inkling-Small comes in at 276bn total parameters, with 12bn active. Compared to its bigger predecessor, the new model achieves similar performance with much less compute, said Thinking Machines. It matches or exceeds Inkling on reasoning and agentic tasks, the company added.

Artificial Analysis scores Inkling-Small 40pc on the Intelligence Index, placing it “well above average” relative to other comparable models. Inkling hits 41pc while DeepSeek V4 Flash matches Inkling-Small at 40pc. At 93 tokens per second, the model is also faster than the average, according to the benchmark.

On Humanity’s Last Exam, the new model scored above 31pc, ahead of Inkling’s 29.7pc, and on SWEBench-Verified, it crossed 80pc. The model takes text, image, and audio inputs, and outputs text.

Thinking Machines said that Inkling-Small, much like Inkling, is suited for real-world applications such as cropping, zooming and programmatic image inspection, improving usability on documents and charts where information could be difficult to read directly.

“Inkling-Small was made in pursuit of our mission to build AI that extends human will and judgement,” the company said. “Tinker customers have seen first-hand that the right fine-tuned model can outperform closed models on a variety of tasks, and do so faster and cheaper.”

The Mira Murati-led company is focused on creating highly customisable AI systems, according to its website.

Inkling is designed to be broad, the company explained at the time of its launch. “We trained it across agentic, reasoning, coding, instruction-following, factuality, vision and audio tasks, rather than narrowly optimising for one domain,” it said earlier this month.

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Australian creator Jazza and the team at Lumin’s Workshop decided a regular gaming die was far too small. They set out to make a twenty-sided die big enough to claim the title of largest dice of any kind, and one that could still tumble and settle on a single face.

The concept began to take shape as the groups collaborated on the huge roach costume project. Discussions at that first meeting kept returning to the concept of scaling up a D20, which they had previously investigated, but this time they wanted to go even bigger to be able to roll it properly. John took on the interior framework, and because a conventional icosahedron has 12 vertices, they created 12 corner pieces to construct those points and 3D printed them. Solid aluminum bars were then screwed along every single outer edge to provide the necessary bracing to keep the design straight even when standing alone. Before ultimately locking everything in, they completed a dry fit with the entire frame, which had to be perfect for the faces to line up properly; a single tiny shift and the whole thing was off.

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Twenty faces followed, each starting as a 1.5-meter equilateral triangle. They’d sourced sheets of 20mm foam, and a custom jig helped cut the precise angles required to ensure the edges met perfectly when assembled. Because the foam was fairly thick, they had considered it into their estimations from the start, and layers were stiffened using contact cement to prevent flex. To avoid any gaps, we added extra foam strips to the outer frame bars.

The color and finish came next, with deep red paint applied in multiple coats because the foam soaked up so much of the first layer. We also needed to get the details right, so the edge details and rivet-style accents were painted with a yellow ochre base and then a metallic gold applied with a sponge for texture. Darker shading on the edges to give it an aged appearance, as well as some purposeful cracks to make it look like old stone or marble rather than plain foam, gave the finished die a strong presence.

With the die eventually completed, they required a trailer to transport it out of the factory, so they took it to Lumin’s factory in Campbellfield, outside of Melbourne, for some real-world testing. A trailer was required to haul the beast about, and lifting it and sending it tumbling down a slope resulted in some quite pleasant rolls that fell on various numbers, including one of those ultra-rare twentys when Jazza and a workshop mate assisted. The die is now housed inside the shop as both a display item and an office mascot.
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a fun one, covering a wide variety of sports. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group hint: Fore!

Green group hint: Football games.

Blue group hint: College competitors.

Purple group hint: Not shoes.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Golf clubs.

Green group: Can precede “Bowl,” in NFL context.

Blue group: An Atlantic 10 athlete.

Purple group: ____ Sox.

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is golf clubs.

The four answers are driver, hybrid, iron and putter.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is can precede “Bowl,” in NFL context.

The four answers are fog, ice, pro and Super.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is an Atlantic 10 athlete.

The four answers are Billiken, Flyer, Rambler and Spider.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is ____ Sox.

The four answers are Aqua, White, Red and Woo.

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Expect to save over $600 on the hottest models, including $250 off monitors, for crisp and clear gaming (or writing), 40% off laptops, and up to $1,200 off desktops for true gamers. We’ve rounded up the top Dell coupon codes and discounts so you can save big on pricey tech.

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