TECH
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The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, a pretty incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time…
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IBM affected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call
Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of…
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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company…
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Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet
On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap…
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RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than…
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Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table
Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos,…
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A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75M led by Index
If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a…
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DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a…
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Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a…
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“This isn’t ‘The Matrix'”
Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was…
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