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DTN 034: Urbit's venture moment
Plus: Brainless jellyfish demonstrate learning, NASA brings home largest asteroid sample yet, Musk's Neuralink recruiting for first human trials, glow in the dark house plans, and more.
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Plus: Brainless jellyfish demonstrate learning, NASA brings home largest asteroid sample yet, Musk's Neuralink recruiting for first human trials, glow in the dark house plans, and more.
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Plus: NASA's UFO report, the big business of AI girlfriends, prisoners training AI, a housing shortage in Antarctica, Parmesan makers add microchips to cheese wheels, and more.
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Nick Simmons is the co-founder of Octu Ventures, a venture DAO that invests in Urbit infrastructure startups. He was previously the Head of Community and Special Ops at Tlon. You can find him on Urbit at ~simfur-ritwed.
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Augustus Doricko is the founder of Rainmaker, a cloud seeding geoengineering startup that aims to create water abundance in the United States.
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Plus: the universe may be a quantum computer, robot removes inoperable tumor and saves patient's life, an artificial brain, Lockheed Martin's streetwear moment, AI talks to whales, and more.
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Plus: DEFCON hackers commandeer Air Force satellite, Antarctica has its own accent, a 100GW laser for interstellar propulsion, a space debris cleanup satellite struck by space debris, and more.
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Will Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology company that uses 3D printing to mass-produce rocket propellant, solid rocket motors, and full rocket systems.
Plus: Avalanche's desktop fusion reactor, NASA's X-59 goes supersonic, NY lawmakers pass first in US data center moratorium, China's big bet on big nuclear reactors, and more.
Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.
Plus: Agtech investment is booming, SpaceX outlines plans for Starfall re-entry vehicles, AI executives call for stricter regulations on synthetic biology, the people who want AI to replace humanity, and more.
Brian Wilcove is the managing director of America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a sovereign-aligned venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies to strengthen U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness.
Plus: Blue Origin's mega-rocket explodes, race to mine the deep sea, IBM's first pure-play quantum chip foundry, NASA selects companies for moon base awards, and more.
Plus: Biomanufacturing to reshape organ transplants, grid batteries are booming, quantum's make-or-break moment, growing chickens in 3D printed eggs, Japan sells out of robot wolves, in-space refueling demo, and more.
Plus: Helium-3 lunar gold rush, Virgin Galactic to begin commercial service, Cowboy files for 20k orbital data centers, non-viral gene therapy, real life gundams, and more.
Plus: China opens rocket launches to international satellites, the future of IVF, a geothermal IPO, big tech targets drug discovery, DARPA eyes commercial space boom, and more.
Plus: Pentagon's drone spending spree, air taxis come to NYC, Zuck's virtual biology initiative, DeepSeek's new model, FDA wants to accelerate clinical trails with AI, and more.
Plus: New Glenn suffers upper stage malfunction, China ramps up satellite capacity, cracks in fusion's funding boom, robot marathon, slime-like artificial muscles, cocaine-fueled salmon, and more.
Paul Veugen is co-founder and partner at NP-Hard Ventures, an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies solving the hardest problems across robotics, defense tech, and foundational infrastructure.