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‘Genius Girl’ goes from inspiring a Korean TV show character to raising a $100 million AI fund

Principle Venture Partners will write early-stage checks anywhere from $100,000 to “single digit millions.” © 2024 Tech...
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Over 20 venture firms pledge to not take money from China, Russia 

Founders now have a way to ensure that their investors haven’t taken money from countries like China, Russia, Iran or Cu...
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SoftBank CEO announces a $100 billion investment into the US

On Monday, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son announced that his company would invest $100 billion into the US over the next fou...
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Why Marc Andreessen was ‘very scared’ after meeting with the Biden administration about AI

What scared him most was what some said about the government’s role in AI, and what he described as a young staff who we...
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Humba Ventures raises $40M fund to invest in deep tech, defense tech 

Humba Ventures is a sister-firm to Susa Ventures, the seed-stage firm that has backed companies like Robinhood, Human In...
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If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars

If you can be the first person to get an AI bot named Freysa to say ‘I love you,’ you’ll win anywhere from $3,000 to ten...
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Meta’s Nick Clegg says Elon Musk has potential to be a political ‘puppet master’

Meta’s Nick Clegg talked about how Musk is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the n...
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Brian Singerman to take a step back from Founders Fund 

Today longtime Founders Fund partner Brian Singerman announced on X he would be transitioning from partner to partner e...
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Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot 

Yurts has raised a $40 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital to provide the DoD with gen AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
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Investigators think a Chinese ship purposefully cut critical data cables  

European investigators believe that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through ...
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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock

Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well. © 2024 TechCrunch...
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Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year

Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 bil...
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‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth

Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like. ...
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Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round 

American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $170 million, adding onto the $230 million Series E ...
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How two brothers went from growing up on a sailboat to making underwater military vehicles 

Vatn Systems founders Nelson and Freddie Mills spent their childhood cruising over turquoise waters, doing their homewor...
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‘Whatever you want Ben’: Inside Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department

When Skydio, a young maker of drones in San Mateo, Ca., sent a customer proposal in 2023 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan P...
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AI-powered parenting is here and a16z is ready to back it 

AI wants to help us drive better, write better and diagnose diseases faster. Now imagine AI helping you be a better pare...
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Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion

Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion, according to Forbes. The talks are r...
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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

Abel creates AI that uses body cam footage and other data to fill out consuming police reports. For research, founder Da...
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Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill

Silicon Valley founders like Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale have been grappling with fully autonomous weapons. © 2024 ...
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Shield AI’s founder on death, drones in Ukraine, and the AI weapon ‘no one wants’

Shield AI cofounder Brandon Tseng has raised over $1 billion to create AI pilots. Here's what he's learned in Ukraine an...
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Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’

Palmer Luckey raged against America’s adversaries, endorsed completely autonomous weapons, and hinted at an Anduril IPO....
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Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.

Anduril sued defense tech startup Salient Motion. It still raised $12 million with participation from Anduril investor a...
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Former Brex COO who now heads unicorn fintech Figure says GPT is already upending the mortgage industry

Lending startup Figure will be launching an AI tool powered by GPT-4 to help catch errors in lending documents.  © 2024 ...
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How one female VC is teaching kids about startups and women in tech

Lux Capital's Deena Shakir wrote a picture book to explain startups to children. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...
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Synex founder, once detained at the border with a 80-pound magnet, is building portable MRIs to test glucose

Synex Medical just raised $28.1 million to build a portable MRI capable of testing glucose and other important molecules...
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No, the FAA isn’t fining SpaceX because of Elon Musk’s politics, former FAA head says

Elon Musk is suing the FAA over fines he claims are "politically-motivated." The former head of the FAA disagrees. © 20...
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Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from U.S. Navy, DoD for 3D printed rocket motors

Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, received a $12.5 million grant to develop new sol...
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A16z’s Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games and Discord is the future

After joining the firm as an investor in 2022, Lu has seen how AI and new distribution platforms are changing the indust...
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Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups. © 2024 TechCr...
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