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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 21 2025

VC Cafe

Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI! Humanoid robots are coming… and not just from China. Kudos Ido Ben-Natan and team Blockaid on your $50M series B to combat rising blockchain threats! Plane is taking off.

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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.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. Up to 25 percent of the units in such buildings can be used as fully licensed STRs? on top of being notably lacking in quality.

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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. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S

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The Future of AI Value: Beyond Foundation Models

VC Cafe

Vertical AI Even with the commoditisation of foundational models, vertical AI is a huge opportunity because it addresses complex, industry-specific demands with tailored functionalities, deep integrations, and specialised workflows. Below are three examples of potential winners. Madrona’s Jon Turow has a great primer on this.