What Two ER Visits Taught Me About American Healthcare Leadership Failures
Going to the ER (twice) gave me a firsthand view of how fragmentation and impersonal systems fail people at life’s most critical moments.
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk’s and Luckey’s companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature…
This 20TB Cloud Storage Deal Costs Less Than a Year of iCloud’s 12TB Plan
This affordable cloud storage solution lets you own your space outright.
After pivoting, Y Combinator grad Glimpse raises $35M led by a16z
Glimpse announced on Wednesday a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and YC.
Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles
The young California startup is already building RVs, FedEx vans, and box trucks. Now its hybrid powertrain will underpin ambulances and mobile healthcare units.
Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem
Arinna builds solar cells specifically for spacecraft and has developed an ultrathin new material that it expects to be far more flexible and more efficient than current technology.
With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.
A Former Apple Engineer Behind Face ID Is Now Building an 8-Figure AI Startup: ‘We’re the Guardians of AI’
Vince Gaydarzhiev’s startup, Alcatraz, ensures that top companies remain secure with face security scans.
Agentic commerce runs on truth and context
Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles an itinerary and executes the purchase. That shift, from assistance to execution, is what makes agentic AI…
Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones
Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.