A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups

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Crunchbase’s AI can predict startup success with 95% accuracy—will it change investing?
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AI Video of Trump and Musk Appears on TVs at HUD Building
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How animals can help fight climate change
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5 Photos Show How the Ukraine War Changed
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How an American takeover could change James Bond forever
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Balatro's Confusing Rating Finally Changed, Leads To Europe Changing How It Rates Gambling Games
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How AI is speeding the mining of valuable metals needed to power the clean economy
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How to Write the Perfect AI Prompt, According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman
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Did the Covid-19 Pandemic Change How You Travel? Let Us Know.
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How Cisco’s AI defense stacks up against the cyber threats you never see
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How Google’s New AI Co-Scientist Tool Gives Us a Taste of Tomorrow’s Workplace
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AI still has a hallucination problem: How MongoDB aims to solve it with advanced rerankers and embedding models
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A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Really Works
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Causing Some Startups to Scrap Their IPOs
This was expected to be a big year for IPOs, but now some companies are rethinking plans to go public.Inc. - 2d -
Medical training’s AI leap: How agentic RAG, open-weight LLMs and real-time case insights are shaping a new generation of doctors at NYU Langone
NYU Langone has built an LLM research companion and medical advisor, and is pioneering what it calls AI-driven “precision medical education."VentureBeat - 4d -
Grady scores 17, Utah Valley defeats Seattle U 61-55
Led by Osiris Grady's 17 points, the Utah Valley Wolverines defeated the Seattle U Redhawks 61-55 on Saturday nightABC News - 2d -
1,200 Acres of Powder for Around $100: Skiing Vermont’s Bolton Valley
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Meta Will Build the World’s Longest Undersea Cable
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Government finances in surplus but pressure builds on Reeves
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Never a dull building: the highs — and lows — of Singapore’s skyline
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The High-Profile Failures of Nikola and Humane Highlight a Danger for Startups
Both Nikola and Humane faced the unique set of challenges that come with being first to market.Inc. - 1d -
Startup founders are turning to 'seed-strapping' in a difficult funding environment
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DOGE claims credit for $4M sale of school building during Biden presidency
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Rich in cash, Japanese automaker Toyota builds a city to test futuristic mobility
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Westinghouse sees path to building cheaper nuclear plants after costly past
Two nuclear projects in the South were bogged down by costly overruns, but Westinghouse Electric Company still sees the potential for new U.S. plants.CNBC - 1d -
Nicholls State earns 93-84 victory over UT Rio Grande Valley
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Trump's AI safety cuts
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Mira Murati’s Startup Launches, Poaching at Least 20 OpenAI Employees From Her Former Workplace
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AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor
Manufacturers already have the data. LLM-powered tools could help them make use of it.Wired - 1d -
Acid Labs raises $8M to build viral Web3 games on social chat platforms
Acid Labs has raised $8 million in funding for its instant social games on messaging platforms.VentureBeat - 18h
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