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Satlyt CEO on orbital AI: "folks don't actually want data centers in their backyards"
6 insights: why his own employers at Google and SpaceX turned him down twice, how onboard AI cut a satellite's data bill by 88%, and what it takes to…
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A top AI lab pays $240K for build analysis instead of building it — Hermetiq CEO
7 takeaways: why Jake says builds, not code, now slow software teams, his plan to do for Bazel what Databricks did for Spark, a $25B market, $2.2M…
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The League founder: she faked charging users' cards to test a feature she hadn't built
6 takeaways: why she capped her launch cohort at 500 instead of 5,000, the five months of free parties that built her waitlist, and the mistake of…
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OpenAI at 30x sales, Starlink Mobile, Zuckerberg's tax deal — This Week in Startups
11 calls: a 20% SpaceX bet in a retirement account, every Tesla as a Starlink hotspot, a $200 family phone plan, and why Meta's Zuckerberg deal may pass…
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Reflection AI CEO on AI safety: "Our whole world is being secured today by 500 people"
13 insights: why US open models could catch China by early 2027, how Beam ran the largest documented open-source RL run, and why big companies move from…
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Better Tomorrow Ventures partner on Muse: "I think a billion users is a big number"
13 arguments: why a SignalFire bear won't pay $10B for Instinct, why Khosla Ventures stays out of AI training-data companies, and what SaaS is still…
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Airbnb CEO on its seed round: "So, for $150,000, you could have owned 10% of Airbnb"
12 moments: why Google interviewed the whole Justin.tv team and walked away, how a box of Obama O's won Airbnb its Y Combinator spot, and what Chesky…
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"I believe John Ternus should stop buying back the shares": LAUNCH founder on Apple M&A
12 calls: Disney for the parks, Sony for PlayStation and Crunchyroll, Etched to cut Apple's reliance on Nvidia, and a $299 pendant that measures a…
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Early Uber investor on Google's SpaceX stake: "this is a 100x bet for Google"
10 calls: why he sold part of his Uber stake to SoftBank before the IPO, why seed investors get a pass on conflicts, and what a $5-an-hour Optimus robot…
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This Week in Startups: 78.4% of tokens on Vercel now go to open source
9 takeaways: why Elon Musk is talking about the hyperloop again, what Amazon is actually defending when it blocks an agent, and the robot-safety…
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Hugging Face passed $100M of revenue in April, its co-founder says
14 insights: What people actually pay Hugging Face for, how far behind the frontier its open models run, and why a robot duck under $400 sold 16,000…
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Jason Calacanis: the labs already ship the safeguards the doomers say don't exist
10 arguments: why he reads the extinction warnings as a planned rollout, the clause he would put in every AI-lab contract, and where he thinks the next…
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