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This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Deeptech company Morphotonics raises 40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone from the founders to their own data suppliers to tell you what they're actually building.

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. []

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Without buyouts, Flock would almost certainly need to lay off staff.

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list from AI to quantum for where founders should be building next.

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.