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28 Aug

27 Aug

Interesting · gatesnotes.com

The choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill Gates

AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place.

AI riskBill Gates

Dev Tools · nebulasans.com

Nebula Sans

Nebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License.

Font FacesNebula Sans

Cool Company Raises · $22.0M

Levanta raises a $22.0M round

Levanta is a leading affiliate marketing platform designed to help Amazon sellers unlock growth through creator-driven commerce. By connecting sellers with a network of vetted creators, Levanta enables performance-based partnerships that drive revenue, increase customer acquisition, and build brand loyalty. Launched in 2023, Levanta has quickly become a go-to platform for sellers seeking to capitalize on the growing power of creators and influencers in digital commerce. Levanta's co-founders previously founded and sold Grovia Partners, a leading affiliate marketing technology-enabled services company, to Acceleration Partners in 2022.

InternetVolition Capital$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $240.0M

REGENT raises a $240.0M Series B round

REGENT’s seagliders will revolutionize regional transportation. Our mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of moving people and goods between coastal cities. Our vehicle, called a seaglider, is an all-electric, wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates within a wingspan of the water's surface and couples the speed of an airplane with the operating cost of a boat. Built to the same safety standards of all modern aircraft and watercraft, our vehicle will service routes up to 180 miles with existing battery technology and routes up to 500 miles with next-gen batteries, all via existing dock infrastructure. Our team of MIT-trained, ex-Boeing engineers are leveraging maritime vehicle development pathways to bring our zero-emission, high-speed seagliders to market within five years.

MobileConsumer-GoodsTransportationErebor BankGiant Step CapitalJapan Airlines+8 more

Cool Company Raises · $75.0M

Cyclic Materials raises a $75.0M round

Cyclic Materials helps businesses recycle, provides the market with a secure and local supply of critical metals, and does so in an ethical, economic, and sustainable way.

$50M+

Cool Company Raises · $250.0M

Instinct raises a $250.0M Series B round

Instinct is an AI assistant built to organize your life: users connect their apps and devices and talk to it by text message and phone call. Founded by Noah Shinn and operated by Spear Street Technology, it went viral while still in private beta — and drew scrutiny over the breadth of app permissions it asks for. The $250M round, led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, values the company at $2.5B and takes total funding to $350M.

BiotechnologyHealth-CareBenchmarkIndex Ventures$100M+

26 Aug

Interesting · spacex.com

SpaceX Starbase LA

A spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast enabling a multiplanetary future

Star PortStarbaseSpacex

Interesting · arxiv.org

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

It is widely repeated in the popular literature and elsewhere that the singularity at the center of a black hole is a point. It is not true. Two observers who free-fall into a spherical black hole along two different angular trajectories at the same time $t$ do not encounter each other at the central singularity; rather, they lose causal contact with each other already well away from the singularity. Counterintuitively, in general relativity two points can be spatially close yet causally distant. The singularity is a surface, not a point. The story for rotating black holes is more complicated, but the same conclusion holds. For a rotating black hole, the singular surface almost certainly resides at its inner horizon, where even the tiniest classical or quantum perturbations ignite the exponential mass inflation instability, precipitating collapse to a spacelike singular surface. There are implications for quantum gravity. We argue that, whatever the ultimate theory of quantum gravity may be, the quantum states of a black hole probably reside at its effectively 2-dimensional singular surface, which coevolves unitarily with, and in thermodynamic equilibrium with, the hot atmosphere of trapped Hawking radiation that the black hole generates within its event horizon.

Astrophysics

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Talos launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Talos builds predictive maintenance for power infrastructure. It continuously monitors critical power equipment, detects meaningful changes in behaviour, and tells teams where to look before a failure becomes an outage. Founded in 2026 by Kevin Hwang, Amitav Kohli and Himani Musku, the Baltimore-based company is in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.

Deep-LearningIOTEnergyYCIndustrials

Cool Company Raises · $10.0M

VeryAI raises a $10.0M Seed round

VeryAI is a Proof of Reality platform providing biometric-based identity verification. Founded by experts in biometrics, crypto, and AI, the company focuses on securely verifying user identity on standard smartphones without storing sensitive images. Its primary product utilizes a hardware-free palm scan verification process. VeryAI aims to distinguish human identities from AI-generated content and deepfakes.

Artificial-IntelligenceMachine-LearningBiometricsAnagramBerggruen InstitutePolychain Capital+1 more

Cool Company Raises · $35.0M

Voya Energy raises a $35.0M Series A round

Voya Energy is focused on innovative energy solutions, unveiling a proprietary aluminum-based metal fuel system paired with an electrochemical generator. This technology aims to produce electricity without combustion or air emissions, advancing sustainable energy methods. The company is committed to commercial deployment of its groundbreaking systems.

ManufacturingEnergyRenewable-EnergySeven StarsOvermatchFounders Fund+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $20.0M

SiFly Aviation raises a $20.0M Series A round

SiFly delivers helicopter-like performance at drone economics through long-endurance autonomous aerial systems. Its cloud-connected, U.S.-made platforms enable persistent coverage for public safety, critical infrastructure inspection, and enterprise operations. The company focuses on providing greater endurance to improve operating performance and economics across various industries. SiFly is positioned to redefine drone usage in mission-critical applications.

Information-TechnologySoftwareAlumni VenturesBbk CapitalQuditShield Capital+1 more

Cool Company Raises · $43.0M

Deep Cogito raises a $43.0M Series A round

Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI research company building general superintelligence. Its research centres on advanced reasoning and iterative self-improvement — models that get better by refining their own reasoning — rather than on scale alone. The $43M Series A backs its post-training engine for frontier intelligence.

SoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceSAASZscalerSouth Park CommonsAtreides Management+6 more

Cool Company Raises · $20.0M

Corvus Robotics raises a $20.0M round

Corvus Robotics builds physical AI agents for large scale supply chain environments, enabling companies to understand and coordinate inventory operations in real time. Built in America, Corvus deploys infrastructure free autonomous drones that operate continuously inside active warehouses and manufacturing facilities at scale. Its spatial AI agents learn from real world deployments to improve models of space, inventory and supply chains. Through a Robots as a Service model, Corvus creates a data flywheel where deployments compound customer value and system intelligence over time, solving the hardest problems in physical AI including autonomy, reliability and real world deployment at national scale while supporting a more efficient and responsive physical economy.

OtherTransportationLogisticsCibus CapitalF7 VenturesSpero Ventures+3 more

Cool Company Raises · $115.0M

ICON raises a $115.0M round

ICON is a construction technology company developing robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction to tackle the global housing crisis and prepare to build on other worlds. As a pioneer of large-scale 3D printing, ICON continually sets new standards for delivering resilient, dignified housing and recently unveiled a radical new robotic printer that enables multi-story construction, a new low-carbon building material, a digital catalog for residential architecture, and an AI architect for home design and construction. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond.

Information-Technology$100M+

25 Aug

Interesting · latent.space

The Rise of the AI Engineer

Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging job title beyond the Prompt Engineer.

Andrew NgLearningAI codingAI Engineering

Interesting · larsfaye.com

AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye

The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.

AI codingLearning

Interesting · ipshipyard.com

The end of IPFS at Shipyard

We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled

IPFS

Cool Company Raises · $12.5M

TerraBlaster raises a $12.5M Seed round

TerraBlaster builds laser-based soil sensors that read nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and pH in real time as a tractor or ATV drives the field, at resolutions down to 0.15 acres. Using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, it feeds nutrient maps straight into the variable-rate fertiliser workflows growers already run. The California company was founded by Jorge Heraud, former John Deere executive and Blue River Technology co-founder, and plans commercial launch in spring 2027.

ManufacturingFarmingHort Innovation Venture FundGrain InnovatePlug And PlaySunna+8 more

Cool Company Raises · $200.0M

Gatik raises a $200.0M Series D round

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers including Kroger, Walmart, Loblaw, Tyson Foods, and Pitney Bowes, and in 2021 became the first company worldwide to operate fully driverless commercial deliveries on the middle mile.

TransportationIntact Private CapitalArk InvestMillennium ManagementKoch Disruptive TechnologiesQatar Investment Authority+1 more

24 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $37.0M

Airbound raises a $37.0M Series A round

Airbound builds autonomous, zero-infrastructure delivery aircraft — engineered, manufactured, and flown in India. Its TRT blended-wing-body tailsitter takes off vertically without a runway and flies cargo to places roads serve badly, with an ultra-lightweight airframe that weighs less than the payload it carries. The Bengaluru company has logged over 13,000 autonomous flights, moves diagnostic samples for hospital networks today, and is targeting per-delivery costs low enough to compete with trucking. The Series A funds a three-city drone delivery network in Andhra Pradesh and a larger next-generation craft.

TransportationLogisticsManufacturingGreenoaksDoorDash LabsLachy Groom+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $18.3M

Mantel raises a $18.3M round

Mantel is developing the first molten-salt based carbon capture technology. Our molten borates are designed to operate at the high temperatures found inside boilers, kilns, and furnaces – enabling highly efficient carbon capture that has not been possible until now. Carbon capture can be applied across industry to reduce emissions - and even achieve net-negative emissions. By solving for efficiency Mantel can reduce energy losses by more than 60% and cut costs in half, unlocking carbon capture’s role in reaching global net zero.

Manufacturing$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $6.0M

Light Links raises a $6.0M Pre-Seed round

Light Links is an optical wireless communication company that has developed Wi-OW™, a technology that replaces traditional radio communication with invisible infrared light. Their solutions aim to enhance mission-critical networks in sectors such as industrial automation and defense. The company is focused on scaling production and expanding deployments. Light Links is backed by notable investors in the dual-use and defense-tech sectors.

HardwareSatellite-CommunicationWirelessCrosscourtManaOutput Capital+3 more

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