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Plus: Among the AI doomers, AI plays Goat Simulator, Colossal creates elephant stem cells to resurrect the wooly mammoth, Danish chef to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere, and more.
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Plus: Among the AI doomers, AI plays Goat Simulator, Colossal creates elephant stem cells to resurrect the wooly mammoth, Danish chef to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere, and more.
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Rema Matevosyan is the CEO and cofounder of Near Space Labs, which builds robotic platforms for very high resolution and rapid response imagery from the stratosphere.
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Plus: F-35A certified to carry nuclear bomb, Pentagon swears it's not investigating alien tech, MIT claims superconducting breakthrough, analyzing bloodstains in space, and more.
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Paolo Pirjanian is the CEO and cofounder of the social robotics company Embodied and a general partner at Calibrate Ventures, an early stage deep tech investment firm. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
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Plus: A new type of jet engine, the first wooden satellite, Musk sues OpenAI, human vein implants, bionic jellyfish, DOOM toothbrush, and more.
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Zac Townsend is the CEO and founder of Meanwhile, the world’s first Bitcoin native life insurer.
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Plus: Disney star goes deep tech, Blue Origin gets it up, a new type of magnetism, a gun that never misses, science journal retracts article featuring a well endowed AI-generated rat, and more.
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Plus: nuclear reactors on the moon, implantable pharmacies, 3D printing batteries, first complete human genome loaded onto quantum computer, Science Corp gets ready for brain implant, ARPA-E doubles down on fusion, and more.
Nirmesh Patel is an investor at Amino Collective, an early-stage health and bio fund investing at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
Plus: New frontiers for neural data, the race to land rovers on the moon, Antares receives DOE approval for demo reactor, General Atomics pauses drone wingman flight tests, and more.
Karen Baert is co-founder and CEO of Ammobia, a climate tech startup developing a lower-cost, lower-pressure process for clean ammonia production.
Plus: Navy's big bet on automated submarine production, Texas' $350M nuclear fund, demoing underground wireless communication, the gig workers training humanoid robots, and more.
Nima Ashraf is the founder and managing director of Physical Fund, a pre-seed venture fund investing in robotics and automation startups building at the intersection of hardware and software.
Jahanzeb Khan is the founder and CEO of 4Earth, an industrial water technology company building productized, AI-driven systems that treat and reuse wastewater on site for factories, plants, and data centers.
Plus: Uber taps Rivian for robotaxis, SpaceX hits 10,000 Starlinks in orbit, China approves first brain implant, Nvidia unveils hardware for orbital data centers, drone warfare sharpens focus on laser defense, and more.
Drew D'Alelio is an investment manager at Sabanci Climate Ventures, a $200 million corporate venture capital fund investing in energy and climate technology on behalf of Sabanci Holding, a century-old energy and industrial conglomerate headquartered in Turkey.
Nhat Lieu is the CEO and co-founder of Bulwark Dynamics, a defense technology company building autonomous landing craft for contested maritime logistics.
Plus: Artemis II gets go-ahead, glass AI chips, Iran war threatens helium supply, flying cars take off, brutal times for US battery industry, AI watch towers, and more.
Alexander Fuglesang is the founder of Flocean, a Norwegian water technology company pioneering subsea desalination to deliver fresh water from the deep ocean.