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From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day
Investors have flocked to Y Combinator's Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has produced some of the biggest tech companies in the world, from Airbnb and Reddit to Dropbox…
200 Students Join Llife Sciences Startup Bootcamp
Hyderabad: Over 200 postgraduate students from Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women's University attended a two-day entrepreneurship awareness bootcamp at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) earlier this week, gaining exposure to…
Crypto Startup Bet on Its Own Fundraise on Polymarket, Then Apologized
P2P.me, a decentralized trading platform, disclosed Thursday that its team opened positions on Polymarket wagering on the outcome of its own capital raise, then issued a public apology after the trades surfaced on-chain. The team placed bets 10…
Pune startup bets on ₹60,000 hybrid retrofit, undercutting ₹9 lakh Kawasaki bikes
As volatile crude prices and West Asia-linked supply jitters revive concerns over petrol costs, Pune-based startup ELESPA HEV is betting on a ₹60,000 hybrid retrofit to break into the mass market, undercutting premium global offerings such…
Founder OS: Turning Notion into an AI Startup, Co-Founder with MCP
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge Founder OS is an AI powered system that transforms a simple startup idea stored in Notion into a full product plan including competitor research, PRDs, and development roadmaps. Starting a startup…
What will power the grid in 2035? The race is wide open
AI's insatiable demand for power has tech companies hunting for new energy sources — a search that has fueled competition and investment into fusion and fission startups. For many, natural gas is the easy answer for 24/7, baseload power.
Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from lands under its jurisdiction. After a tech startup approached…
SoftBank secures record $40 billion bridge loan for OpenAI stake
SoftBank Group signed a loan of $40 billion to finance its investment in OpenAI, adding to the Japanese company's debt load as it seeks to stay abreast of a global artificial intelligence race. The noncollateralized bridge loan, which will mature…
The Iran war is defense tech's chance to shine, but few systems and weapons are ready
The war in Iran is forcing the U.S. government to consider integrating newer tech tools from defense startups into its battlefield strategy. The Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System, or LUCAS, drone is one of the only major new U.S. systems…
'I'm just not comfortable with with myself' - Inside the grey market peptide boom
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Dale was a few months into using Mounjaro when he started to…
Rivian Made Car Dealers Back Down in Washington. More States May Be Next.
Electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive just won a yearslong battle with car dealers in Washington state that threatens the model of how cars are sold. After fighting to sell its vehicles directly to buyers, Rivian threatened to take its case to…
Alibaba bets big on AI agents that can power 'one-person companies' - a growing phenomenon in China
China has seen an explosion in 'one-person companies' thanks to a little help from AI agents. Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang told Business Insider he has seen this growth firsthand, estimating that 30% to 40% of the e-commerce platform's customers…
Conservatives' want to tax university research. It would kill the goose that lays America's golden eggs
Several so-called conservative think tanks and Department of Commerce officials have proposed taxing the income that universities earn from licensing their research discoveries supported by government grants. By effectively taxing research and…
Coinbase Resolves Customer Complaints About Prediction Markets Push Notifications
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Another global health crisis is gaining momentum. We need to be prepared.
A global health emergency is well underway — and we're dangerously unprepared to contain it. Drug-resistant infections are outsmarting our medical defenses, opening a widening gap between rapidly evolving superbugs and a dwindling antibiotic…
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