Meta signed a deal yesterday with solar developer Silicon Ranch to develop a $100 million, 100-megawatt solar farm in South Carolina.
The new renewable installation will power Meta’s planned AI data center in the state, which is expected to cost $800 million. Both the data center and the solar plant are expected to begin operations in 2027.
Most of the equipment for the solar farm will be made in the U.S., according to the companies.
The new deal is the 18th such agreement signed between Meta and Silicon Ranch. The renewable developer said the deals have helped drive over $2.5 billion in investments.
Meta has added over 2 gigawatts of solar capacity this year alone. In June, it signed a deal with developer Invenergy for several projects in Ohio, and in May it said it was working with AES to build 650 megawatts of solar in Kansas and Texas. Meta is also working in Texas with Engie and Zelestra to develop nearly 800 megawatts of additional solar capacity.
Like many hyperscalers, Meta has been tapping renewables like solar for two main reasons. One, it helps the company stick to its net-zero carbon emissions pledges. But perhaps more importantly, solar power is inexpensive and can be deployed quickly, helping reduce time-to-power, a key bottleneck for any new data center.
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Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets.
“I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this pattern, of putting very important CRM data in spreadsheets just because it was the most flexible thing,” Monaco told TechCrunch. “But it was actually a pain to maintain. There’s so much manual work involved. So [I] just went down this rabbit hole of building a product for myself and wanted to reimagine what a spreadsheet could look like with the full power of LLMs.”
The result was Paradigm, an AI-powered spreadsheet equipped with more than 5,000 AI agents. Users can assign different prompts to individual columns and cells, and individual AI agents will crawl the internet to find and fill out the needed information.
Paradigm works with AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google’s Gemini, Monaco said, and supports model switching.
“We want to support every single model because we want our users to be able to have the highest reasoning outputs when they need it, but also the cheapest outputs,” Monaco said. “It’s just a constant cycle of evaluating different models, working closely with model providers to make sure our limits are high enough, and then giving some of that power to our users.”
The company launched a small closed beta preview in late 2024 and has been iterating on the product using customer feedback. Paradigm attracts users ranging from consultants to sales professionals and finance folks and operates on a subscription model with tiers based on usage. Paradigm counts the consulting firm EY, AI chip startup Etched, and AI coding company Cognition as early customers.
Paradigm is now releasing its product to the public and announcing that it raised a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst. The company has raised $7 million to date. Monaco said the funding will go toward executing on the company’s “extremely aggressive product roadmap.”
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“The interesting thing that happened when we fundraised is some people we pitched just kept on using and paying for the product,” Monaco said. “I think that was a cool part of it. We found a lot of value from it internally and our investors, not even just our investors — other investors that we talked to — are still using it.”
Paradigm isn’t the only company looking to give spreadsheets an AI upgrade. Quadratic, which has raised more than $6 million in venture funding, is a 3-year-old startup with a similar goal. Legacy companies like Google and Microsoft are also adding AI tools to their spreadsheet applications.
Monaco said that she doesn’t really consider the competition because Paradigm doesn’t think of itself as an AI-powered spreadsheet. She said she thinks of it as a new AI-powered workflow that happens to be in the familiar form of a spreadsheet but won’t necessarily stay that way forever.
“What I’m seeing in the most popular AI products now is this fine balance between present and future,” Monaco said. “How do you build something that is really powerful and generates a lot of value now but also sets you up really well for the future? That’s the question that I asked myself a year ago when I was starting the company.”
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In the heart of the Twin Cities, where the Mississippi River flows and the skyline reflects a blend of historic charm and modern innovation, life moves at a relentless pace. From the bustling streets of Uptown to the serene, tree-lined avenues of Linden Hills, the demand on our time and energy is constant. Amidst this whirlwind, one task often falls by the wayside: maintaining a truly clean and healthy environment. We sweep, we dust, we tidy, but do we truly clean? The answer, for most, is no. This is where professional help steps in, offering a transformative experience that goes far beyond a simple surface-level tidy. The best cleaning services Minneapolis provide a meticulous level of detail that elevates your living or working space from merely “clean” to “pristine.” This isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about creating a foundation for a healthier, more organized, and ultimately more fulfilling life.
A professionally cleaned space offers a sanctuary from the chaos of the outside world. It’s a place where you can breathe easier, both literally and figuratively. Dust, allergens, and bacteria, which often hide in plain sight, are systematically eliminated. This is particularly crucial in a city that experiences the full spectrum of seasons, each bringing its own set of environmental challenges, from winter’s tracked-in salt and grime to spring’s pervasive pollen. A deep clean tackles these issues at their source, ensuring that the air you breathe is as fresh as a Minnesota morning. Beyond the health benefits, a clean environment has a profound psychological impact. It reduces stress, improves focus, and fosters a sense of calm and control. Think of it as an investment in your well-being, a commitment to creating a space that nurtures and supports you.
Deconstructing the Deep Clean: A Methodical Approach
The secret to a truly clean space lies in a methodical, comprehensive approach that most of us simply don’t have the time or tools to execute. Professional cleaners operate with a system, a checklist, and a level of expertise that ensures no corner is left untouched. They understand that different surfaces require different treatments and that a one-size-fits-all approach is insufficient. For instance, the products used on a delicate hardwood floor are vastly different from those used to sanitize a kitchen countertop. This attention to detail is what separates a quick wipe-down from a deep, restorative clean.
In his latest article, John Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer at Ellipse emphasises why this is particularly the case for SMEs and why, even though finding the ‘right’ people isn’t easy, you can’t afford to recruit anyone who doesn’t pull their weight.
Before you can even start searching, you need to consider what your aims are for your business. What is the extent of your ambitions? Even if you have only just set up your business, what is your exit strategy? What is needed to take your business from where it is now to where you want it to be in five years’ time?
If you can answer these questions, you will know if you need to find someone who will ultimately succeed you, or someone with the skills and experience you lack that are needed to help the business develop – or perhaps someone with the potential to become one or the other.
Once you have identified a particular set of skills or experience that your ideal recruit might have, the obvious people to look for might seem to be those who have been in a similar role at another company. My own experience is that however logical this might seem, it doesn’t necessarily follow that such a person will deliver what your own business needs.
They may have a brilliant track record at a big, well-known company, but that doesn’t mean they will be able to repeat the trick for yours. They might have benefited from having a great team around them. They could simply have been lucky in that the circumstances in which they operated at the time might have made it hard to fail. Above all, they may simply be the sort of people who thrive in large corporations but find it hard to succeed working for smaller companies, particularly if they lack the entrepreneurial outlook that those working in small outfits need to have.
I have friends in business who have been looking to grow their companies and brought in people who seem to be the right types to take their companies up to the next level. All too soon, they bitterly regretted it as their company got bogged down in the sort of big company processes that undermine the agility which gives many small businesses their edge.
For me, attitude is more important than skills or experience. People can develop skills and gain experience. Although attitudes can change, they tend to only slowly, if at all. If someone takes the view that their role is to do X and they can’t be expected to do Y, they are less useful to me than someone who might not know all the ropes but is willing to learn and not afraid to make a few mistakes along the way. I would rather take on someone inexperienced but with these attributes:
• bright, so they will learn quickly
• passionate, so they will work hard to get results
• willing to help others, so that as they develop they will in turn develop the people around them
• optimistic realism, so that they will try to find ways in which things can be done rather than reasons why they can’t
When it comes to finding such people, beware relying on interviews alone. It could be that your interviewees seem to have the attributes you are after but when it comes to business it turns out that their greatest talent is in being good at interviews! Use strategies that will give you a real insight into how useful – or not – they might be.
Why not set them a problem to solve before you meet up with them and tell them you’ll expect them to give a presentation of their solution? If numeracy or literacy is vital in the role you are looking to fill, set a task that will demonstrate whether or not they have sufficient abilities in these areas. Ideally, ask someone whose judgement you trust to interview them as well.
While ‘The Apprentice’ may ultimately be a bit of a circus for the cameras, the idea of setting tasks to assess ability is sound, and the episode in every series where Lord Sugar asks some of his business associates to grill the remaining candidates always reveals a wealth of interesting new information.
Psychometric and other personality tests are worth the small investment when compared to the potential cost and aggravation of a wrong hire – like so many services, they can now be accessed online at a cost that makes them accessible for all businesses. Try a few different providers’ tests out on yourself, ask other people you know well to do likewise, and pick the one that delivers the most accurate and insightful results. If the tests reflect true pictures of people you know well, you can trust them to deliver the same for job applicants.
In short, don’t rely on one method or another to screen recruits – aim for a mix that gives you objective as well as subjective information.
However good your recruitment process is, you can still sometimes end up with taking someone on who just isn’t right for your business. When this is the case, don’t delay and let it damage your business – say goodbye to them. And this naturally means that you need to set up contracts that give you and your recruits the opportunity to change your minds if things just don’t work out. At my own company, we have taken on some excellent people – and offloaded some who didn’t fit in – by adopting a ‘temp to permanent’ model as our standard one for new recruits.
If you open most women’s closets today, there’s a good chance you’ll find more than one pair of leggings sitting on the shelf. They’ve come a long way from being just “gym clothes.” Some of us wear them on coffee runs, some dress them up with boots, and some of us practically live in them when working from home.
But here’s the thing: not every pair feels amazing on everybody. Sometimes they slide down, sometimes they pinch, and sometimes they just do nothing for your shape. The good news? A little bit of know-how makes shopping for leggings so much easier.
1. Start with Fit (Always)
Fit is the deal-breaker. The right leggings should feel snug but not suffocating. If you find yourself constantly yanking them up, it usually means the waistband is wrong for you. High-rise styles are often the safest bet—they hug the waist, smooth everything out, and stay put when you move. Mid-rise sits lower and feels more relaxed, which some people prefer for lounging.
For the past few months, Cix Liv – real name – has been operating his company REK out of a no-frills warehouse space off Van Ness in San Francisco. The office has a couple of makeshift desks with computers and a bunch of virtual reality headsets on some shelves. More to the point, REK also has four humanoid-style robots hanging from gantries, and they’ve been outfitted with armor, boxing gloves, swords and backstories.
These machines represent the start of a robot fight club for Liv and his small REK team. They’re at the vanguard of a movement taking place in San Francisco to create a new sport in which robots piloted remotely by people will do battle inside of cages. This sport would mix flavors from mixed martial arts, pro wrestling, the tech world and anime, and, in so doing, would intermingle skill and theater in equal doses. “This is going to be the next UFC,” says Liv. “When this guy’s walking around and he has full swords, you can feel the pounding in the ground. You know deep in your soul that this thing could kill you. It’s like when you see a lion or something and the hairs go up on the back of your neck. Once people can really feel this and see this, it’ll be fully mainstream.”
We’ve obviously had robot competitions for years. BattleBots started back in the 1990s, giving hardware nerds a chance to show off their cool contraptions. Those bots, though, were mostly ground dwellers and gimmicky. Now, however, we’re amid the rise of humanoid robots being built by lots of start-ups in the U.S. and, more notably, China. The humanoids bring with them the chance to create a combat sport that looks more familiar to mainstream viewers and the opportunity for better storytelling as we anthropomorphize the bots and develop tales for their pilots.
Some early stabs at these robot battle competitions have taken place recently in San Francisco. Two underground, invite-only events have been held in the parking garage of a downtown building as part of the Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB) league. Pairs of robots squared off against each other, while a couple hundred people cheered them on from the sides. During intermissions at the first fight, humans stepped into the ring to chase each other with tasers while the fighters prepared their bots for the next battle. (Yes, really.)
The people behind UFB are Michael Cho and Xenia and Vitaly Bulatov, who are married. Cho is a longtime entrepreneur who has been working in the robotics field for years and originated the UFB concept. The Bulatovs also work in the robotics realm and have been organizing the events in San Francisco and pumping social media full of clips from their contests.
The scene is reminiscent of the early parts of the movie Big Hero 6 in which people of all types turn up in shady lairs with their battle bots while onlookers imbibe and gamble. Only the backdrop for that movie was San Fransokyo, and San Fransokyo was edgier and had better bots. These first competitions have been somewhere between exciting and farcical with the robots overheating and bumbling around in between their moments of ferocity. Liv has been the burgeoning star of these fights, winning the first competition and then shifting into a sort of Joe Rogan announcer role for the second, and he thinks he has a plan to uplevel the competitions.
Cix Liv with his trophy from the first robot battle
LIV IS a large, brawny man who favors muscle tees that promote his biceps. He grew up in the worlds of online gaming and virtual reality. His name is, in fact, a gaming handle, and he made it legal after an identity theft incident. “I called some agency and they said that I could have my credit frozen for the rest of my life or legally change my name,” he says. “They meant the second option as kind of a joke. But, I was like, ‘Fuck it. I’m Cix now.’”
The Liv part is a nod to a company Cix founded in 2016 that let people livestream their virtual reality sessions. The technology developed by the company (LIV) stood as one of the first major efforts to transport the action taking place inside a VR headset out onto a screen for other people to see. Many people consider LIV videos to be the reason that the game Beat Saber took off as a viral success. And VR is now key to REK’s robot combat sport plans.
In REK’s idealized vision, pilots will don VR headsets, slide their arms into combat controllers and enter a virtual fighting cockpit. The pilots will then be able to initialize a series of attacks that are translated by software into movements carried out by the robots. We’re talking full-on punches and slaps and swings, and we’re talking about sword-wielding robots trying to butcher each other as god intended.
The technology required to make all this work is somewhere well beyond daunting. REK has already started training AI models on fighting moves gathered from existing data sets and videos and has been converting that training into maneuvers that can actually be performed by the bots. It’s also built an early prototype of its VR software that gives the pilot a holographic view of a robot’s body, surroundings, health and other performance metrics.
One problem for REK and anyone else that wants to get into this sport is that the current humanoids on the market aren’t really made for fighting. The ones being used most often in the San Francisco fights so far come from Booster Robotics. They’re the size of children and weigh 30kg each. The bots do have some balancing and fighting skills built in but tend to overheat when their actuators are fired in quick succession for, say, a flurry of jabs. To get around this overheating issue, the robots lower their torque automatically, which then lessens the power of the jabs. These robots also can recover pretty well when they’re falling forward but do a bad job of recovering when they’ve been pushed back.1
REK has focused on using bots made by Unitree Robotics. It has two mid-sized bots and then two larger bots that weigh about 90kg each. These robots have a wide range of motion and can even come with some built-in boxing skills. Still, they’re not general-purpose fighters either and suffer from balancing issues as well. The big ones cost up to $100,000 each, and they’re usually found in university and corporate settings where they’re being used for research rather than as fodder for combat sports training.
Both Booster and Unitree are based in China, which is outpacing the U.S. when it comes to humanoid robots. The key technology on these systems is the actuators that control the movements in the limbs, and China is the actuator capital of the world. When REK wants to make a software change to the bots or order a replacement part, it’s often gated by dealing with overseas engineers and shipping schedules. “It would help if I knew Mandarin,” Liv says.
What REK really has going for it is its vast virtual reality experience. There’s Liv and then the company’s chief technology officer Amanda Watson. Before REK, she worked at Oculus/Meta for more than seven years, spending some of that time sitting alongside John Carmack. Watson led the development of much of the Link technology that made it possible to connect a VR headset to a gaming PC via Wi-Fi, which let players stop being tethered via cables to their computers. Also on the REK team is Nima Zeighami, who has spent more than a decade working on virtual reality, augmented reality, and game engines, and did a stint at Leia building cameras and light-field displays.
Amanda Watson being a VR guru
Watson has a track record of approaching the latency problems that can plague VR in novel ways, which could be key here. REK must make the pilots’ moves feel natural and real-time if the fights are to resemble true combat sports. “If you know the real issues associated with latency, then you can control for them,” Watson says. “A good programmer can make it look as though things are happening very responsively.”
IN JULY, Liv posted a video in which one of REK’s robots went nuts. The team had sent a full-body command to the robot, but its feet weren’t touching the ground at the time because it hung from a gantry. The robot could not depend on its usual stability mechanisms and compensated by flailing around widely. Liv had genuine fear and panic on his face as he approached the hulking mass and tried to decide how to stop it from wrecking itself and the REK office and its humans.2
please make this go viral so I can pay for repairs
This video told me two things. First, it’s obvious that the journey toward a robot fighting league will be an arduous one. The humanoid robots are not yet being mass produced, so they’re expensive and the costs for experimentation – accidental or otherwise – will be high. Add on all the software and virtual reality work that needs doing, and the slog becomes very real. Second, it told me that Liv might just have the media savvy needed to create a robot fighting league. He posted this low moment for REK on purpose, knowing it would go viral and generate interest in the cause.
While Liv has been participating in the Ultimate Fighting Bots events, it’s unclear if he and REK will stay linked to UFB or go off and create their own league. (We’ll have more on the UFB backers soon.) At the moment, Liv is convinced that REK is the only company working on the underlying technology components required to turn robot battles into a popular, spectator sport. “We’re building all this really complicated tech to make the mass consumption of this possible,” he says. “Our method of controlling the robots will be more capable than what anyone else is doing.” In one scenario, REK creates the software and hardware foundation of this new sport and sells its technology to others.
So far, REK has been mostly self-funded. “I’d made some money from a prior start-up and was deciding whether to get a mortgage on a house or have robots,” Liv says. “I chose to do this instead of having a house.”
During my two-day stint hanging out at the REK office, I would see Liv light up again and again when talking about what future fights could look like. His mind goes to patriotic storylines. “You could have Japanese fighters show up with a samurai and battle against a robot outfitted in chainmail from the U.K.,” he says. “Or you could have Tesla’s Optimus versus Unitree. If Elon was taking on China, it would be broadcast to the whole world, and you would literally have state-level engineers trying to ensure their country wins.”
Liv also likes the opportunities this type of sport offers for unconventional competitive pairings. Men versus women. Kids versus adults. The young versus the old. “It would be the first combat sport where you have parity and everyone is competing on a level playing field,” he says.
REK has already been building out the backstories for its bots. One of them is Derek – the robot who doesn’t want to fight because he’s peaceful at heart but has to fight to earn his freedom. He’s the one that spun out of control. “Poor Derek just wants to be free,” Watson jokes. Another machine is named Rambot and has dog tags belonging to John Rambo.
China is clearly ahead on producing the hardware that these bots need but, so far, has not embraced the full-on fighting aspect. Companies there have been doing sedate demos. Liv is convinced that San Francisco and the U.S. will be the robot battling leaders. “China is ahead on production and engineering,” Liv says. “But the U.S. is still the cultural battleground for the world. The winner of the robot fights will probably be an American using Chinese robots – at least for now.”
In its current incarnation, the technology is cool but unpolished. The robots can look goofy at times, and they’re far from executing long series of sophisticated moves. The scene itself, though, is exciting, and there is a feeling of inevitability to all of this. Like, obviously we’re going to have humanoids try and slaughter each other. And obviously people will want to be jacked in controlling these things as the slaughter takes place. If nothing else, it seems better to have bots damaging themselves than humans damaging themselves. “Gen Z doesn’t want to get punched in the face anymore,” Liv says. “Parents don’t want their kids getting concussions. The future of combat sports is robots.”
Of course, the bots will probably have their own opinions on all of this soon enough.
1 Cix used this knowledge to his advantage in the first robot fight. Instead of spamming his controller like some other pilots, he made judicious punching decisions that guaranteed maximum torque. He also tried to nudge the other robots toward a spot in the ring where a bump in the floor would cause them to tumble backwards.
2 The flailing immediately disconnected the robot’s Ethernet cable, making it impossible to send it a stop command.
