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Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

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The Air Force Let AI Fly an F-16. The Pilot Was Just Watching

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Raising a Seed Round Is Harder Than Ever — Here's Why, and What It Means for Emerging Managers

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VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why 

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The $100M Pre-Seed Problem

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Humanoid robots are coming. Which industries are poised for it?

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

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Does Your AI Agent Need a Kill Switch?

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Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip with 1,000x better qubit stability and a faster path to scalable computing.

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The internet is being rebuilt for machines

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As "Q-day" looms ever closer, possibly making traditional passwords obsolete, Boimetrics becomes a critical security protocol.

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Technology usually creates jobs for young, skilled workers. Will AI do the same?

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The AI Boom Is Creating a Trust Crisis — And Startups Are Completely Underprepared

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AI is so expensive that humans look cheap again

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Chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm are all investing in this buzzy self-driving tech startup

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Humanoid robot learns impressive tennis skills from imperfect human motion

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How AI is changing the business and art of video — from ‘chaos machine’ to creative catalyst

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Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

Open Standards Will Unlock Agentic AI s Next Breakthrough in Fintech

Open Standards Will Unlock Agentic AI's Next Breakthrough in Fintech

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AI agents are rewriting biopharma’s $140B playbook - ending manual, outsourced drug development

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3D Chips Smash AI Speed Barriers 

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Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

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How industry efforts aim to help AI agents communicate better

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Nature-inspired navigation system helps robots traverse complex environments without GPS

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This Chip Computes With Light, Breaking the 10 GHz Barrier for AI

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AI teaches itself and outperforms human-designed algorithms

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China now home to half the world's industrial robots as the US falls further behind

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Morgan Stanley, Nvidia have their answer to AI’s energy needs: nuclear fusion

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Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

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Are AI unicorns starting to move beyond hype?

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Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

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Why More Startups Are Buying Other Startups In 2025

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The State Of Startups In Mid-2025 In 8 Charts: Global Funding And M&A Surge As AI Fervor Continues 

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Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering

Microsoft's MAI-DxO Crushes Doctors at Medical Diagnosis while Cutting Costs

Sakana AI  releases its new  Continuous Thought Machine (CTM)

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The new math: Why seed investors are selling their winners earlier

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AI 2027: a deeply researched, month-by-month scenario by Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo

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Why AI can't understand a flower the way humans do

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Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath

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Archer Selected as the Official Air Taxi Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA in Exclusive Deal

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A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models

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AI doesn't really 'learn'—and knowing why will help you use it more responsibly

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When outplayed, AI models resort to cheating to win chess matches

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Generative Biology - Arc Institute’s new AI can read and write the code of life

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New Ocelot Chip from Caltech's AWS Center  Makes Strides in Quantum Computing 

Microsoft unveils million-qubit quantum chip with matter never seen before

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How should we test AI for human-level intelligence?

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AI's next frontier: Selling your intentions before you know them

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An AI system has reached human level on a test for 'general intelligence'—here's what that means

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$132K – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data

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The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you

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6 Ways To Scale A HaaS Business Like A Pro

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AI is now designing chips for AI

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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

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A new Harvard AI tool helps identify existing drugs that could treat rare diseases

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Apple researchers suggest artificial intelligence is still mostly an illusion

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Even the ‘godmother of AI’ has no idea what AGI is

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DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech

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 Startups Venture Apple Security AI Apps Events Startup Battlefield More Featured Article  Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues

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What Salaries Startup CEOs Earn in 2024?

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ACA Releases Model Convertible Promissory Note

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Goldman Sachs to Launch Three Tokenization Projects by Year-End

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Valuations of startups have quietly rebounded to all-time highs. Some investors say the slump is over. 

Seed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms

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Why Have Early Stage Valuations Remained Surprisingly High?

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Beyond AI, venture market remains stodgy midway through 2024

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Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting

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What will it take for smart glasses to replace smartphones?

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AI copilots set to engage the future of air combat

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AI helps detect Parkinson’s with 100% accuracy 7 years before symptoms

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Electric Flying Taxis Are Quietly Sneaking Up on Us

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Robots could clear snow, assist at crosswalks, monitor sidewalks for traffic

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AI can Outperform Humans in Writing Medical Summaries

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The AI revolution is coming to robots: how will it change them?

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A venture capital firm looks back on changing norms, from board seats to backing rival startups

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Peter Thiel-founded Valar Ventures raised a $300 million fund, half the size of its last one

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Meet the humanoids: 8 robots ready to revolutionize work

AI Agents

Are AI agents the next big thing in the generative race?

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What to know about this year’s massive Stanford AI report

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Why this JV is taking a ‘real-estate-first approach’ to establishing EV charging hubs

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Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone

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Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up

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Apple’s AI Transformation

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Deepfakes are spreading, putting creator and brand safety at risk

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Everything That Moves Will Become Robotic

USC collaborates with startup supporter Techstars to encourage intellectual property development

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Techstars Seattle is shutting down as accelerator shifts focus to cities with more VC activity

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Why Sequoia’s Klarna board drama made the VC world wince

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With rapidly improving AI, voice cloning has only gotten more convincing. That’s a problem

Dual Theory

 Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough