Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE.Β I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his life looked very, very different.
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The company, founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, announced a $14 million Series A, bringing its total funding to about $32 million.
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Voyager Technologies has reportedly filed its confidential paperwork to go public, hoping for a $2 billion to $3 billion valuation.
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The company raised a $6.3 million seed round led by Initialized Capital
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All throughout Americaβs capital, founders enjoyed the fruits of their industryβs political jockeying.
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Today, Anduril announced it is building their massive weapons factory, Arsenal-1, in Columbus, Ohio, confirming TechCrunchβs earlier reporting.
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Qantas has been forced to delay several flights to South Africa due to last minute warnings about SpaceX rocket debris falling from the sky.Β
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Powerset, founded in late 2022, is an investment program with a simple hypothesis: what if the best investors arenβt venture capitalists but other founders, scribbling off checks in between late night coding sessions and board meetings?Β
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The round could give the company a valuation of about $1 billion, a decrease from the companyβs previous $1.35 billion valuation.Β
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Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the mayor, Ulises Cabrera of Moreno Valley, now claims Flock wrongfully terminated him, partly because he refused to use his position as mayor to benefit Flock, according to a lawsuit Cabrera filed [β¦]
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βThese are the kind of jobs that we shouldn't need people to do anymore," founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jobs.
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Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries.
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A New York Times investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influencer industry.
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Lyft is suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the city unfairly charged the rideshare company over $100 million in taxes.
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Elon Muskβs jets took over 355 flights this year, with 31 of those flights heading to or from near Mar-a-Lago.Β
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A Wired investigation found that Google Maps can be near impossible to use in the West Bank, especially since the start of the war. Users told the publication that the navigation app would direct them into walls, fail to account for time-consuming checkpoints, or steer them onto restricted roads leading to Israeli settlements, which can [β¦]
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Principle Venture Partners will write early-stage checks anywhere from $100,000 to βsingle digit millions.β
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Founders now have a way to ensure that their investors havenβt taken money from countries like China, Russia, Iran, or Cuba.Β Over 20 venture firms have signed the Clean Capital Certification, attesting that they have not and will not take money from foreign adversaries. Some of the firms that have signed include Marlinspike Partners, Humba [β¦]
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On Monday, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son announced that his company would invest $100 billion into the US over the next four years.Β
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What scared him most was what some said about the governmentβs role in AI, and what he described as a young staff who were βout for blood. β
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