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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules.

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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

VC Cafe

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT.

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The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

In contrast classical computers have very low error rates and operate at room temperature. China transmitted entangled photons (at one pair of entangled particles per second) over 1,200 km in a satellite link, using the Micius satellite. But qubits have high error rates and need to be ultracold. Quantum Timing.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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The Age of Digital Colonialism

Start Up Blog

And to that list we can add any country which isn’t the USA or China. China and the USA are the only countries that we know of on the globe who are building these pieces of metastructure at a Nation State Scale. I think the smartest country in the world right now is China. Welcome to the age of digital colonialism.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?)

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. We are surrounded by top-notch people.