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What it's like to be a founder of the most high-stakes startup ever, OpenAI
Being a founder is difficult under any circumstances. You operate under a state of constant duress, scrambling to figure out a working business model while not getting crushed by incumbents, losing key talent, and striving to avoid failure. Mental…
I dreamt of building rockets until my aunt's illness inspired me to build an AI startup that's raised nearly $10 million
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, cofounder and CEO of Waterlily. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world…
I sold my startup for millions without a single dollar in revenue. Here's why that's the point
The house I grew up in was being knocked down. Rollins House, a rundown Art Deco former factory in south-east London, was the kind of building that looks like nothing until you know what it is: unglamorous on the surface, full of history…
Nuclear Company Oklo Receives Startup Authorization for Groves Reactor, A Key Step In Its Regulatory Journey
On Thursday, nuclear start-up Oklo (OKLO -8.43%) announced some welcome news. The company received “startup authorization” from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for its Groves Reactor in Texas under the Reactor Pilot Program (RPP).
TLS and mTLS for Infra Services: A Production Deep Dive for Solo Devs and Small Startups
This started as a cost problem, not a security paper. I was running a small production setup across two servers: a dedicated 1cpu/1GB RAM server running Redis, and a second OCI server — 2ocpu/12GB RAM — hosting a Postgres database…
Defense tech investors thought the war in Iran could make them millionaires. Instead, some of the industry's biggest names have faced a bloodbath
The U.S. has racked up a $37.5 billion tab on the war in Iran following President Donald Trump's launch of Operation Epic Fury in late February. Yet despite continued conflict and historic levels of defense spending requested by the Pentagon…
South Korea President Lee looking to open new era of AI in with global tech companies
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung hosted an AI summit in San Francisco on Friday, bringing together the heads of leading AI developers with top South Korean business figures to accelerate efforts by Seoul to make the country a global AI…
Pet wellness becomes underlying theme as industry grows steady
At Anjana's (name changed on request) home, sitting in front of cups of freshly brewed tea, on a fine evening, her boy, Milo, is restless as it is also time for his pedigree snack. The bell rings, and the door opens to the one with a cap that bears…
Anthropic and Meta are on the defensive. Can they win back trust?
Meta's new ad is a Lisa Frank wet dream. There are rainbows, butterflies, bear hugs, and smash-cuts between three grinning children. It's a smiley, cloying vision for AI. The ad's narrator beckons us to call Meta's staff 'optimists' and 'dreamers,'…
America Cannot Regulate Its Way Into Building A Dominant AI Ecosystem
America's AI industry is beginning to split around a fundamental question: what does it mean to lead in artificial intelligence? For the frontier labs, leadership means building the world's most capable model and acceleration towards…
DeepSeek said to tell backers of funding pause after viral posts
DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it's suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said, days after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-Chinese AI competition went…
CSIR-CECRI celebrates 79th Foundation Day
CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Karaikudi celebrated its 79th Foundation Day here on Saturday. J. Mathiyarasu, Scientist-G, CSIR-CECRI, welcoming the dignitaries and the large gathering in his address traced the origin…
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here's how to fix it.
A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power…
Hugging Face CEO shares his demands of OpenAI after 'rogue' agent hack: 'It deserves an unprecedented response
Even in the AI age, some conversations are best had in person. Last week, after Hugging Face suffered an unusual security breach involving an AI agent running on OpenAI models, the company's CEO, Clem Delangue, boarded a flight to San Francisco to…
Viral post warns Hong Kong workers against dismissing $1m savings
A recent social media post has sparked a widespread debate in Hong Kong by criticizing average wage earners who casually dismiss HK$1 million as a small sum, highlighting how social media and an inflated housing market have distorted the public's…
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