Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle,…
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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline |
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ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok |
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A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI |
Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm. UP.Labs, as it was called then, built startups…
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation |
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers |
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the…