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NewsPicks AI: Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first
For fusion startups, the hard part is over: Thanks to a groundbreaking experiment in 2022, we know that controlled nuclear fusion reactions can generate more power than they...
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NewsPicks AI: Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford.
In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radical idea –...
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NewsPicks AI: Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac
Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app,...
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NewsPicks AI: Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report...
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NewsPicks AI: How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world
The world today is riven by cultural differences, political divisions, and geopolitical disputes — a challenging environment for any investor hunting for startups...
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NewsPicks AI: Steve Blank Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief.
For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event...
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NewsPicks AI: Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures
Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more...
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NewsPicks AI: Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI
Meta announced on Thursday that parents using its supervision tools can now see the topics their teen has asked Meta AI about in...
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NewsPicks AI: Steve Blank AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX)
This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad...
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NewsPicks AI: SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people
There’s a version of a tech conference where you fly somewhere expensive, sit through panels, collect business cards you’ll never follow up on,...
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NewsPicks AI: Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation
For years, existing consumer platforms have tried to keep users within their app by offering more services. After the rise of the AI...
