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cnbc.com - Jennifer Liu - This NYC startup requires 4 days in office but just let everyone work remote for a whole month
This NYC startup requires 4 days in office but just let everyone work remote for a whole month
CNBC –

Justin Paget | Digitalvision | Getty Images Bruno Solari spent his August traveling all around Spain, starting with a week in Ibiza, continuing on to Madrid, Málaga, Marbella and Barcelona, before finally returning to Ibiza for a bachelor…

axios.com - Bradley Olson - Scoop: A powerful new model from startup Reflection is set to shake up the AI race
Scoop: A powerful new model from startup Reflection is set to shake up the AI race
Axios –

A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system that could threaten Chinese upstarts and U.S. AI giants alike. Why it matters: The marriage of an American open-weight…

cityam.com - Ben Miles - Startup success is rare enough in the UK without any more taxes
Startup success is rare enough in the UK without any more taxes
City AM –

If our rare successes are taxed further, more of our spinouts will end up sold early to foreign buyers and we risk losing their IP, writes Dr Ben Miles Last week, we heard our new Prime Minister champion the UK as the future global…

marketanalysis.com - Screening Startup and Product Ideas After a Brainstorm: Four Questions, Money First
Screening Startup and Product Ideas After a Brainstorm: Four Questions, Money First
Market Analysis –

A brainstorm is the cheap part. An hour gives me a page of ideas (products, tools, the odd technology bet, now and then a whole company). On the page they all look good. Building any one of them takes weeks, often months. So nothing gets built…

bollywoodhungama.com - Bollywood Hungama News Network - R. Madhavan set to host Game Changers featuring startup founders and global investors; details inside! : Bollywood News
R. Madhavan set to host Game Changers featuring startup founders and global investors; details inside! : Bollywood News
Bollywood Hungama –

Optimystix Entertainment India Limited has announced Game Changers, a new original business reality format that will be hosted by actor and filmmaker R. Madhavan. The show will be produced in Dubai for the Middle East market, with plans to explore…

enr.com - Michael Dumiak - Sand Batteries From Finnish Startup Offer New Renewable Energy Storage Option
Sand Batteries From Finnish Startup Offer New Renewable Energy Storage Option
Engineering News-Record –

A sand battery is a large silo filled with an inert, non-combustible material that absorbs and retains heat from superheated air. The air circulates through a network of pipes and ducts coiled through the silo. This heat energy can come courtesy of…

tomshardware.com - Jowi Morales - Robotics startup has real human vs. robot cage match, California responds with cease-and-desist order - regulator threatens misdemeanor charges after YouTuber fights three robotic humanoids
Robotics startup has real human vs. robot cage match, California responds with cease-and-desist order - regulator threatens misdemeanor charges after YouTuber fights three robotic humanoids
Tom's Hardware –

A robotics startup just received a cease-and-desist letter from the state of California after it hosted a human vs. robot fight in San Francisco. REK founder and CEO Cix Liv shared the document on social media, with the California State Athletic…

newsweek.com - Eileen Falkenberg-Hull - The five-generation office: Age predicts less than you'd think
The five-generation office: Age predicts less than you'd think
Newsweek –

Twenty years ago, a 22-year-old and a 74-year-old rarely shared a manager. Today, that overlap defines the modern office: the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z all work side by side, marking the first time five…

dev.to - Tonmoy Chandra Mudi - He Missed IIT Madras CSE by 0.01. MIT Rejected Him. Today, He Leads a $20B AI Startup.
He Missed IIT Madras CSE by 0.01. MIT Rejected Him. Today, He Leads a $20B AI Startup.
DEV Community –

Sometimes, the biggest setbacks in your career don't look like setbacks at all. One of the most striking examples is the story of Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of AI search company Perplexity. He came from a lower-middle-class Tamil family…

seekingalpha.com - The Asian Investor - Geely: Strategic NIO Battery Deal Is A Win (GELYF)
Geely: Strategic NIO Battery Deal Is A Win (GELYF)
Seeking Alpha –

The Asian Investor 33.27K Followers Geely Automobile Holdings Limited is experiencing strong EV delivery growth, driven by its premium ZEEKR brand. Geely's ZEEKR brand nearly doubled its first half of 2026 sales volume to a record 178,000 units…

techcrunch.com - Kirsten Korosec - TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
TechCrunch –

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! On an average day in…

businessinsider.com - Alistair Barr - AI was supposed to kill tech jobs. The data on job openings says otherwise.
AI was supposed to kill tech jobs. The data on job openings says otherwise.
Business Insider –

Fears that AI will wipe out tech jobs aren't showing up in the data. Job openings at tech companies are climbing, while layoffs continue to ease after a brutal industry reset following the pandemic, according to new data from TrueUp, a hiring…

technewsdaily.com - Technewsdaily - PostHog adoption trends in open-source stacks - TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews
PostHog adoption trends in open-source stacks - TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews
TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews –

PostHog reached 119,697 detected domains as of March 2026. This total includes 62,143 enriched company profiles. The platform grew from 3,600 active domains in March 2024 to 8,000 by January 2025, representing a 122% increase. Mixpanel sits at…

futurism.com - Frank Landymore - Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
Futurism | Science and Technology News –

The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one. In a commentary bluntly titled “It's Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is about to obliterate the…

ventureinsecurity.net - Ross Haleliuk - Fighting AI slop with human insight
Fighting AI slop with human insight
Venture in Security –

It's been nearly two months since the previous issue of Venture in Security, and since I posted much on LinkedIn. I didn't plan for this break. Part of this was life, and the fact that building a company tends to consume all available time and…

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