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fromFuturism
7 hours ago

Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI

Founders of defunct startups are monetizing their digital remains, such as Slack messages and emails, through a growing ecosystem of buyers and middlemen.
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fromEntrepreneur
22 hours ago

The AI Playbook That Built an $80M 1-Person Business (You're 1 Prompt Away and Don't Know It)

A solo founder sold his AI platform for $80 million in under six months, highlighting the importance of removing barriers in AI success.
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fromFortune
11 hours ago

This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter's birth. Now he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance | Fortune

Real work-life balance comes at a personal cost, and sacrifices made during the grind for success can lead to regret.
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fromFortune
1 day ago

Upstart's new millennial CEO thinks AI can make every American 10% richer | Fortune

Millennial CEOs see AI as a transformative tool for improving credit access and economic outcomes.
#entrepreneurship
fromFortune
2 days ago
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A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African 'super app' | Fortune

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fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

The Price You Pay When Your Business Becomes Your Identity

Entrepreneurs often merge their identity with their business, leading to challenges in delegation, health, and succession planning over time.
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fromZDNET
1 week ago

Want to build a startup that gets acquired? This founder shares 5 proven tips

Successful startups require a cautious approach, exploring and developing iteratively to survive and thrive.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 day ago

The AI gold rush is pulling workers into startups as layoffs and RTO push them out of corporate jobs

A significant rise in entrepreneurship is driven by AI advancements, return-to-office mandates, and a challenging job market.
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fromFortune
2 days ago

A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African 'super app' | Fortune

Aubrey Niederhoffer dropped out of UC Berkeley to launch Swoop, a food delivery app in Nigeria, securing $7.3 million in seed funding.
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fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

The Price You Pay When Your Business Becomes Your Identity

Entrepreneurs often merge their identity with their business, leading to challenges in delegation, health, and succession planning over time.
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fromZDNET
1 week ago

Want to build a startup that gets acquired? This founder shares 5 proven tips

Successful startups require a cautious approach, exploring and developing iteratively to survive and thrive.
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fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media | TechCrunch

ComfyUI raised $30 million to enhance control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node-based workflow.
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fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English | TechCrunch

Shade is a cloud storage platform designed for creative teams to efficiently store and search media files, addressing challenges posed by increasing content generation.
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fromFortune
2 days ago

The European AI unicorn run by a baker's son-he learnt the fundamentals of business watching his father make bread rolls | Fortune

Baking requires efficiency and data analysis to manage demand spikes and maintain profitability.
#robotics
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 days ago

Venture capitalist Nabeel Hyatt says training robots will reshape the future of work

Robotics requires diverse, real-world data to train models effectively, as environments and tasks vary significantly across different settings.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI | TechCrunch

Engineers aim to program physical agents like digital ones, but robotics faces challenges due to limited data and the need for realistic simulations.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 days ago

Venture capitalist Nabeel Hyatt says training robots will reshape the future of work

Robotics requires diverse, real-world data to train models effectively, as environments and tasks vary significantly across different settings.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI | TechCrunch

Engineers aim to program physical agents like digital ones, but robotics faces challenges due to limited data and the need for realistic simulations.
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fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Don't stop hiring humans - stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan's founder says | TechCrunch

Every founder must assemble the right team to scale, avoiding hiring mistakes that can jeopardize startup success.
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fromFortune
2 days ago

Stephen and Ayesha Curry talk about the one habit that separates good business leaders from great ones | Fortune

Stephen and Ayesha Curry emphasize authenticity and listening as key leadership skills in their entrepreneurial and philanthropic ventures.
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fromFast Company
2 days ago

This autonomous welding robot may be the future of advanced manufacturing

The U.S. faces a significant shortage of welders, necessitating over 320,000 new professionals by 2030, while robotics may help address this gap.
fromFortune
2 days ago

A startup called Astor plugs into your brokerage account and texts you AI-driven financial advice for $15 a month | Fortune

We see people asking all these questions to ChatGPT and Claude, but those services are not optimized. Astor is built on a multi-agent architecture that draws on Anthropic models.
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fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos | TechCrunch

"We saw that the Philippines and broader Southeast Asia were proving themselves in terms of innovation. The Philippines is probably one of the most exciting markets for disruption in the financial services industry in the world."
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fromHarvard Business Review
2 days ago

The End of One-Size-Fits-All Enterprise Software

Generative AI is dissolving the economic logic that made standardized enterprise software the only practical choice for most companies. What replaces it will be shaped not just by the rapidly evolving capabilities of this new technology, but by leaders willing to ask a harder question: Which workflows do we actually need to own?
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#startup-battlefield
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield's alumni now? | TechCrunch

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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 - and what every company gets regardless | TechCrunch

The Startup Battlefield Top 20 showcases the most compelling startups ready for the Disrupt Stage, with a chance to win $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup.
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fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield's alumni now? | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield serves as a crucial launchpad for tech companies, enabling them to gain visibility and secure significant funding.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 - and what every company gets regardless | TechCrunch

The Startup Battlefield Top 20 showcases the most compelling startups ready for the Disrupt Stage, with a chance to win $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup.
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fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Exclusive: Redwood Materials lays off 10% in restructuring to chase energy storage business | TechCrunch

Redwood Materials laid off 135 employees to restructure for its growing energy storage business.
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fromwww.housingwire.com
3 days ago

Beazer Homes CEO Allan Merrill on sustainability and affordability

Employee service initiatives and a focus on energy efficiency drive Beazer Homes' culture and success under CEO Allan Merrill's leadership.
fromBusiness Matters
3 days ago

Said Abulafia: Building Resilience in Hospitality

"Success to me is creating lasting value. Having a positive impact on people, and maintaining consistency, discipline, and control over my direction."
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

SusHi Tech Tokyo isn't a conference - it's a deal room with 60,000 people | TechCrunch

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 focuses on facilitating meaningful business connections through innovative matchmaking and reverse pitch formats.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days ago

I was frustrated by every baby carrier on the market. So I built my own and grew 2,200% in the last three years.

Hope&plum was founded to provide plus-size babywearing options, growing into a successful seven-figure business through organic marketing and community engagement.
#ai
fromEntrepreneur
5 days ago
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This 30-Year-Old CEO Reveals the Surprising Reason Behind His Startup's $11 Billion Growth

fromFortune
1 week ago
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This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents | Fortune

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
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This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant | TechCrunch

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fromEntrepreneur
5 days ago

This 30-Year-Old CEO Reveals the Surprising Reason Behind His Startup's $11 Billion Growth

Harvey, an AI startup for legal professionals, reached an $11 billion valuation by learning from failures, according to CEO Winston Weinberg.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents | Fortune

Sam Brown turned a layoff due to AI into an opportunity, co-founding Fathom AI, which achieved significant revenue with minimal investment.
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fromTNW | Investors-Funding
1 week ago

Solidroad raises $25M Series A to automate customer support quality assurance with AI

Solidroad raised $25 million to automate customer support quality assurance using AI, reviewing 100% of interactions compared to the industry standard of 1-3%.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant | TechCrunch

Developers demand fast, cheap tokens for AI models, driving companies like Parasail to innovate in cloud processing for inference.
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fromTNW | Startups-Technology
5 days ago

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare's administrative back office

Coral automates administrative workflows in healthcare, processing tasks in under five minutes without changing provider operations, targeting significant growth by 2026.
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

The 12-month window | TechCrunch

For most companies, there's roughly a 12-month period where the business is at its peak value, and then it crashes out. The companies that capture generational returns are often the ones where someone spies that moment instead of assuming the good times will get even better.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Crosby's CEO explains why he interviews candidates on Sundays

When the company started offering Sundays as an option, he said, 'a lot of people were just like, 'That would be a huge relief.'
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fromFortune
1 week ago

Zillow's CEO says his friends were shocked when he quit a cushy Microsoft job-but Steve Jobs led to his success at the $10.5 billion real estate firm | Fortune

The 2008 financial crisis led Jeremy Wacksman to leave Microsoft for Zillow, transforming the company during a pivotal time in real estate and technology.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Defunct startups are monetizing their digital data by selling it to AI companies, raising significant privacy concerns.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Exclusive: Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions | TechCrunch

Loop uses AI to provide predictive and prescriptive solutions for supply chain management, securing $95 million in Series C funding to expand operations.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Research suggests the average founder of the fastest-growing startups isn't 25 - it's 45, and a 50-year-old is more than twice as likely to build a breakout company as a 30-year-old - Silicon Canals

The average age of successful startup founders is 41.9 years, challenging the stereotype of young entrepreneurs.
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it's thriving -- here's why | TechCrunch

Chef Robotics has passed an important milestone: 100 million servings, defined as a portion of food that our robots deposit into a meal tray.
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fromTechRepublic
1 week ago

NTT Research Launches Scale Academy to Bring Lab Technology to Market

NTT Research transitions from pure research to product development with the launch of Scale Academy, aiming to commercialize innovations and meet market demands.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

Harvey's 30-year-old CEO says failing is a 'good way to learn' and says 'destroying your ego' led him to an $11 billion success | Fortune

Failure is essential for success in building a startup, emphasizing learning and improvement over perfection.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product | TechCrunch

Navigating legal processes is crucial for deep tech startups to successfully transition from laboratory breakthroughs to scalable businesses.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Exclusive: You've heard of hybrid cars. Now meet a hybrid cement plant. | TechCrunch

A startup has developed electric heating for hybrid cement and glass plants, allowing reduced fossil fuel use and cost savings.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

a16z's Ben Horowitz sees 'AI anxiety' consuming Silicon Valley founders. Workers' fear of something else is killing adoption | Fortune

Two distinct AI anxieties exist: founders fear rapid change while workers fear replacement.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

Buzzy vibe-coding startup Emergent is launching an AI agent to take on OpenClaw and NanoBot

Emergent is launching Wingman, a personal AI agent for messaging platforms, competing with existing AI tools like OpenClaw and NanoBot.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

With 7 short words, the CEO of United Airlines just taught a brilliant lesson in leadership

Scott Kirby's leadership at United Airlines emphasizes transparency and stability during crises, promising not to cut jobs or investments despite industry challenges.
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fromAol
1 week ago
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Reid Hoffman says leaders need to update their AI strategy. His advice: weekly check-ins.

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fromAol
1 week ago

Reid Hoffman says leaders need to update their AI strategy. His advice: weekly check-ins.

Managers should experiment with AI tools across all business areas rather than treating it like a software update.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

Reid Hoffman says leaders need to update their AI strategy. His advice: weekly check-ins.

Executives must adapt their AI strategies to prioritize rapid experimentation across all business areas rather than traditional software rollout methods.
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fromInfoQ
1 week ago

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

eBay pioneered many technologies but ultimately could not save the company despite doubling engineering productivity.
#openai
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro | TechCrunch

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a personal finance startup, to enhance its financial planning capabilities and bring in new talent.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

OpenAI buys its second startup in a month

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a startup providing AI financial planning tools, signaling a potential shift in personalized financial guidance.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro | TechCrunch

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a personal finance startup, to enhance its financial planning capabilities and bring in new talent.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

OpenAI buys its second startup in a month

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a startup providing AI financial planning tools, signaling a potential shift in personalized financial guidance.
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fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

The Startup Bet Lawyers Keep Misunderstanding - Above the Law

Lawyers must embrace uncertainty in startups, viewing their careers as investments rather than relying solely on traditional risk-averse training.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

WeWork's latest comeback bet fits inside a phone booth | Fortune

WeWork has shifted to a profitable model with a focus on private office pods and franchised locations after a significant financial downturn.
fromEntrepreneur
1 week ago

This College Student Launched His Business When He Was 16. Now It's Making Mid-Five Figures Every Month and Growing: 'You Can Not Quit'

Youth 4 Youth was built by players who are currently living the journey. We're taking the doors we've walked through and holding them open for the next generation.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Entry-level hiring is broken. These companies are completely reimagining it

Palantir launched a Meritocracy Fellowship to recruit young talent, emphasizing aptitude over experience and providing intensive training and mentorship.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

What is Sky Quarry? Little-known energy stock has skyrocketed 266% during the Strait of Hormuz drama

Sky Quarry Inc's stock surged nearly 170% in a week due to rising oil prices and increased domestic production discussions.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

Intuit was an AI pioneer. Why its stock became a SaaSpocalypse casualty | Fortune

Being an early adopter of AI does not guarantee protection against market panic, as shown by Intuit's stock performance during the SaaSpocalypse.
#gen-z
fromFortune
1 week ago
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$12 billion crypto company boss says Gen Z 'create an absurd amount of chaos' and make him want to pull his hair out-but he's betting on them anyway | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
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While other CEOs freeze entry-level roles, this AI founder is hiring Gen Z with zero experience | Fortune

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fromFortune
1 week ago

$12 billion crypto company boss says Gen Z 'create an absurd amount of chaos' and make him want to pull his hair out-but he's betting on them anyway | Fortune

Gen Z workers are often seen as difficult but possess exceptional skills that can drive innovation and success in companies.
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fromFortune
2 weeks ago

While other CEOs freeze entry-level roles, this AI founder is hiring Gen Z with zero experience | Fortune

Gen Z faces mass unemployment, but some companies, like Tastewise, seek inexperienced workers for their fresh perspectives in the AI era.
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fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

How AI Can Free Founders From Daily Decision Overload

AI will help founders by filtering decisions, structuring problems, and reducing cognitive load, allowing them to focus on strategy and creativity.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

What founders can learn from Anjuna's layoffs and recovery | TechCrunch

Anjuna Security navigated market challenges by prioritizing internal culture and transparent communication during layoffs.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Repeat Y Combinator founders raise $2.2 million to fix vibe coding's pricing problem. Read their pitch deck.

OpenBuilder's cofounder and CEO, Paul Li, stated that bugs leave projects unfinished and drive up costs, highlighting the need for a more sustainable pricing model.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Roblox's Peter Yang wants his kids to skip college and corporate life to bootstrap businesses

Artificial intelligence is transforming entrepreneurship, enabling individuals to bypass traditional corporate paths and build businesses more efficiently.
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fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

These Co-Workers Turned a Viral TikTok Into a Dog-Friendly Side Hustle. It Made $456K in Year 1 - Now On Track for $15M: 'Should Have Quit My Day Job Sooner'

Houndsy raised $160,000 on Kickstarter and achieved $15 million in lifetime revenue, with co-founders quitting their jobs to focus on the business.
fromTNW | Investors-Funding
2 weeks ago

Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal

Simtheory brings agentic AI infrastructure: its platform allows teams to build AI assistants that understand their business context, co-ordinate across tasks and applications, and complete work with the reliability and auditability enterprises require.
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fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

I vibe coded time-saving tools for boomers like my parents. They picked up on AI fast, and it's made their lives less lonely and easier.

AI technology has transformed how older generations interact with tech, enabling quicker solutions and support from younger individuals.
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fromTNW | Startups-Technology
2 weeks ago

nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp

nFuse offers a messaging-first ordering platform for retailers, achieving 70% adoption and significantly lower order processing costs compared to traditional digital channels.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Inside the SpaceX founder factory-and the race to solve the next generation of impossible problems

Tamir Blum, a SpaceX alum who designs vehicles for agriculture through his company Kisui, notes that, like space vehicles, farming rovers also have to navigate difficult and 'unpredictable' environments.
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fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up

UpScrolled, founded by Issam Hijazi, rapidly gained over 5 million users by offering a censorship-free social media alternative.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Startup Battlefield 200 applications open until May 27 | TechCrunch

Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are open, offering early-stage startups a chance to gain exposure and feedback from top VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

This 28-Year-Old College Dropout Has Raised $24 Million to Fix a Military Problem 'Nobody Was Thinking About'

Peter Goldsborough left college to join Facebook's AI team, later became a chief engineer at Anduril, and founded Rune Technologies focusing on military logistics.
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