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A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever. She has pulled off impossible ones before.
Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.
Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing […]
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Honkai: Star Rail team designs characters with story first, combat second
Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.
The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its all-electric air taxi at the heliport as part of a demonstration hosted […]
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The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance’s drug discovery unit, Anew Labs, presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of […]
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