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Health And Biotech Startups Now Get The Majority Of US Series A Funding

Health And Biotech Startups Now Get The Majority Of US Series A Funding

This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. Series A commitments. So far in 2024, biotech and health companies have pulled in around $5.6 billion across 110 Series A rounds, per Crunchbase data. That accounts for 53% of all funding at the Series A stage, which is a closely watched barometer for the startup ecosystem. The biotech sector’s comparatively strong showing comes as overall Series A dealmaking looks on track to come in a bit above last year’s totals. However, funding remains down from 2022 and much,…
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Coding With Devin: My New AI Programming Agent

Coding With Devin: My New AI Programming Agent

Sponsored By: Reflect This essay is brought to you by Reflect, an ultra-fast notes app with an AI assistant built in directly. Simplify your note-taking with Reflect's advanced features, like custom prompts, voice transcription, and the ability to chat with your notes effortlessly. Elevate your productivity and organization with Reflect. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.We onboarded four new engineers at Every this week. The onboarding process was what you'd expect. I gave them access to our GitHub account so they could download our main code repos. I was peppered with the usual…
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Crypto Astrologers See Price Moves in the Stars

Crypto Astrologers See Price Moves in the Stars

“Astrology is the measure of time,” says San Francisco-based financial forecaster Marsilio Musing via a Zoom call with the camera off. To him, the art of interpreting planetary movements is similar to making predictions based on the movement of stock and asset performance over a specific period.“I've been at this for a long time, and I have a particular technical analysis system that I've been developing for many years,” Marsilio says. “One of my little taglines is ‘technicals and timing for the win.’”Marsilio says he uses a pseudonym inspired by Italian Renaissance astrologist Marsilio Ficino because financial astrology is the…
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US officials say North Korea may be planning military action to create chaos ahead of US election, report says

US officials say North Korea may be planning military action to create chaos ahead of US election, report says

US officials are preparing for potential North Korean military action — possibly encouraged by Russian President Vladimir Putin — in the run-up to the US election in November, NBC News reported, citing six senior US officials.Such a move could be designed to create chaos in another part of the world as the election process ramps up, they said."We have no doubt that North Korea will be provocative this year. It's just a matter of how escalatory it is," one US intelligence official added.Following the NBC News report, a campaign spokesperson for Donald Trump said, "The only 'October surprise' will be…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Scale AI’s Massive $1B Deal Leads Slower Week

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Scale AI’s Massive $1B Deal Leads Slower Week

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. It was a slower week for big rounds compared to many of the past few. Nevertheless, the week saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals. 1. Scale AI, $1B, artificial intelligence:…
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Microsoft’s CTO on How to Build Enduring Businesses in the AI Era

Microsoft’s CTO on How to Build Enduring Businesses in the AI Era

This week I flew out to Seattle to attend Microsoft's developer conference, Build. Read my full report and Evan Armstrong's analysis.Kevin Scott is not your average CTO. He says things like “chill” and “shit,” and he wears button-down shirts with funky patterns. Oh yeah, and he builds supercomputers. In his spare time, he likes to do woodworking.Scott was the first person at Microsoft to recognize the importance of AI and instigated its OpenAI partnership, which has become the single most important strategic move at Microsoft since the dot-com era. He's hopeful that in the next two to three years, a model…
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The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies

The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies

The US is widely seen as the global leader in artificial intelligence, thanks to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. But the US government says it needs help from other nations to manage the risks posed by AI technology.At an international summit on AI Safety in Seoul on Tuesday, the US delivered a message from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announcing that a global network of AI safety institutes spanning the US, UK, Japan, Canada, and other allies will collaborate to contain the technology’s risks. She also urged other countries to join up.“Recent advances in AI carry exciting, life-changing potential…
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Bill Gates shares the Warren Buffett-inspired scheduling tip he wishes he had learned earlier

Bill Gates shares the Warren Buffett-inspired scheduling tip he wishes he had learned earlier

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says you should stop overbooking your calendar.The billionaire shared a scheduling tip in a Friday Threads post, citing fellow billionaire Warren Buffett."It took far too long for me to realize that you don't have to fill every second of your schedule to be successful," Gates wrote. "(In hindsight, it's a lesson I could have learned a lot sooner had I taken more peeks at Warren Buffett's intentionally light calendar.)" While at Microsoft, Gates was known for his meticulous schedules, literally planning his day down to the minute — an approach Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also…
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