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IBM affected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 24, 2025
Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 21, 2025
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company

Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 18, 2025
On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap

RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 15, 2025
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 12, 2025
Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos,

A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75M led by Index
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 9, 2025
If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a

DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 6, 2025
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a

Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 3, 2025
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a

“This isn’t ‘The Matrix'”
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . March 31, 2025
Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . March 28, 2025
AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in