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Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.

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The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.

The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.

arXiv:2605.30376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern time series architectures face a fundamental trade-off: channel-independent models scale well with increasing data volume but ignore critical inter-channel dependencies, while channel-dependent models are expressive but remain ``dimension-bounded'', struggling to generalize across heterogeneous datasets.To bridge this gap, we introduce Unicorn (Universal Correlation Network), a framework for scalable, multi-dataset pretraining on high-dimensional time series. At the core of Unicorn is a latent prototype codebook that decouples correlation modeling from specific channel identities. By projecting heterogeneous channels into a shared latent space, UniCorN learns identity-agnostic, reusable interaction patterns that transfer across domains with diverse dimensionalities and semantics. Extensive experiments show that Unicorn significantly outperforms state-of-the-art forecasting architectures, particularly in few-shot transfer

The U.S. chipmaker's first publicly available humanoid robotics system will use humanoids from Chinese startup Unitree.

The U.S. chipmaker's first publicly available humanoid robotics system will use humanoids from Chinese startup Unitree.

Aviation start-ups and the Trump administration want to replace helicopters with electric aircraft, but the new vehicles still have to pass arduous tests before the public can use them.

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months.

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months.

The Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), in collaboration with other academic institutions, has published a new study on start-ups in the agricultural sector in the journal Progress in Economic Geography. In it, a research team examines how well so-called agri-start-ups are embedded in existing innovation structures in a region of Lower Saxony that is particularly strongly characterized by agriculture. A key finding: the extent to which innovations from agri-start-ups contribute to sustainability transformations in the region depends heavily on established and well-entrenched structures.

Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley after a new $65 billion funding round.

Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley after a new $65 billion funding round.

Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more environmentally friendly and cheaper than existing ones.  The research was published today in Science, and a startup called Rock Zero is working to…

Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, but also build more intelligent AI

Mistral's semiconductor ambitions underscore the French startup's bid to control more of its infrastructure as it competes with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Mistral's semiconductor ambitions underscore the French startup's bid to control more of its infrastructure as it competes with OpenAI and Anthropic.

arXiv:2605.27553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently there has been a lot of progress in the development of economic nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) schemes for multistage optimal power flow (OPF) problems. However, the additional inclusion of discrete decision variables to model generator runtimes and generator startup costs can amount to large scale mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) that are computationally very challenging. This work investigates the practical approach that replaces the nonlinear AC power flow equations by convex quadratic approximations. In combination with the discrete generator dynamics this leads to a mixed-integer quadratically constrained program (MIQCP) which is of significantly lower complexity and can be solved in reasonable time by off-the-shelf solvers such as CPLEX. We further show that simple terminal constraints are not sufficient to guarantee recursive feasibility of the NMPC scheme if constraints on generator runtime and on

arXiv:2605.27440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small changes to how a buyer phrases a question -- "best CRM" vs "top CRM" vs "best CRM for a SaaS startup" -- produce substantially different brand recommendations from AI assistants. Across ~6,000 paraphrase runs and ~6,000 same-prompt rerun controls on OpenAI and Anthropic models, the recommendation-set similarity (Jaccard) between two paraphrases of the same underlying buying intent is 0.288 for cosmetic rewordings (clustered 95% CI [0.215, 0.361]) and 0.135 for constraint-adding rewordings ([0.098, 0.175], pooling region/language and specificity-ladder axes) -- both far below the 0.50-0.61 same-prompt rerun baseline. The prompt string, not the underlying buyer intent, is the dominant input to which brands surface. Increasing reasoning effort does not narrow the gap (bounded by +/-0.05). This is a direct challenge to an increasingly popular AEO/GEO practice. Tracking a brand's "AI visibility" by counting brand mentions over a fixed

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

SLAS, the Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening, after a six-year wait to reschedule the originally planned event in spring of 2020, welcomed 137 exhibitors and more than 1,500 registrants from more than 30 countries at its 2026 Europe Conference and Exhibition, May 19-21.

The United States built roughly 100 tons of plutonium during the Cold War, all of it meant for

A Mad Hatter and a giant rabbit sit around a table discussing an A.I. start-up. This is normal behavior around the Bay Area these days.

arXiv:2605.26298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly run untrusted code on developer machines: shell commands generated by language models, third-party scripts retrieved at runtime, and tool plugins of unknown provenance. Existing isolation mechanisms impose tradeoffs that fit this workload poorly: containers and microVMs add privilege, image-management, and startup costs, while ad-hoc process controls and wrappers (e.g. chroot, ulimit) provide weak guarantees and little syscall-level control. Sandlock is a lightweight Linux process sandbox organized around a simple split: static, input-independent policy is compiled into kernel-enforced rules, while a narrow supervisor handles runtime-dependent decisions and virtualized effects. This split lets Sandlock enforce filesystem, network, IPC, and syscall policies without root, cgroups, images, or mandatory namespaces. It also supports dynamic network decisions, HTTP-level access control, TOCTOU-safe inspection of execve

Pope Leo XIV’s AI warning shows split among Trump officials as the White House resists new guardrails, upping stakes with Catholic voters and Silicon Valley allies.

Pope Leo XIV’s AI warning shows split among Trump officials as the White House resists new guardrails, upping stakes with Catholic voters and Silicon Valley allies.

Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual message on artificial intelligence arrived as Silicon Valley’s A.I. enthusiasts pursue their own spirituality through technology.

Companies say it’s a better way to dispose of the Cold War-era material — and fix a shortage of nuclear fuel. But the plan has also faced criticism.

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Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in the lab. Columnist Michael Le Page suspects this technique will have to be combined with gene editing if it is to help many men

arXiv:2605.26018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of cloud-native technologies has created an urgent need for security. Currently, confidential containers are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant environments. Existing confidential container designs mainly adopt a microVM-based architecture. Although this approach improves inter-container isolation, its complex software stack leads to high startup latency and significant resource overhead, making it unsuitable for short-lived container workloads. In this paper, we propose Fasco, a lightweight confidential container runtime based on the ARM Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA). Fasco directly instantiates each container as an independent Container Realm, leveraging CCA's hardware-enforced isolation to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of application data inside the container. In addition, Fasco introduces a dedicated System Realm to provide system services and resource management for container realms.

The American pope wants to take artificial intelligence down a notch. Is he challenging the tech companies, or will tech take over the papacy?

DeepSeek is keeping the discount. The Chinese AI startup said Saturday it will permanently lock in a 75%

Smart-panel start-up Span wants to turn spare household electricity into AI computing power. How far it can scale and what effect that would have on the residential grid remain unsettled

arXiv:2605.22726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents dynamic directional lane allocation in urban air mobility (UAM) corridors as a discrete-time mixed-integer linear program (MILP). This formulation activates, deactivates, and reverses lane direction as bi-directional airspace demand evolves. We model demand from disaggregate ground travel data by decomposing each trip into a multi-modal sequence with first-, middle-, and last-mile legs and routing the UAM-served middle-mile segment through a vertiport-side dispatch model. We use the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study by placing a multi-region spanning corridor between Contra Costa county and Silicon Valley. We find that the dynamic policy cuts unused airspace capacity by 5x, increases mean lane utilization from 36-48% to 67% at the same service level relative to baselines, and reduces commuting-population mean travel time by up to 21.6%. These results show that dynamic configuration of airspace capacity

In times of financial crisis, some people will roll the dice on starting a new venture to cope with the uncertainty of unemployment, say business researchers. In a new study in the Journal of Business Venturing, University of Alberta researchers Angelique Slade Shantz, Madeline Toubiana of the University of Ottawa and their team found that when people lost jobs and experienced "occupational disorientation" during the COVID-19 pandemic, some chose to "play" with entrepreneurship, simply to see where it might lead or to explore a new identity.

The science of de-extinction does not exist, but Colossal Bioscience’s “artificial egg” is an interesting technical feat

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OpenAI would be one of the most highly anticipated potential initial public offerings, in what is set to be a major year of I.P.O.s for Silicon Valley.

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The startup Boston Metal has raised a $75 million funding round to produce critical metals, MIT Technology Review can exclusively report.   The company has been known largely for its efforts to clean up steel production, an industry that’s responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse emissions today. With the additional money, the new focus could…

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Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.

Smart Monitoring for People with Epilepsy Start-up project at the University Hospital Bonn and University of Bonn to receive €2.7 million in GO-Bio next funding from the BMFTR.

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German defense tech start-up Helsing and space technology group OHB on Tuesday unveiled a joint venture to develop an AI-powered surveillance and targeting system for use in outer space.

Radar, a hardware and software company that helps retailers better manage inventory and cut back on theft, is now valued at over $1 billion.

Anthropic sued the Defense Department in March after the agency declared the artificial intelligence startup a supply chain risk.

Anthropic sued the Defense Department in March after the agency declared the artificial intelligence startup a supply chain risk.

Blackstone is partnering with Google to launch a U.S.-based AI infrastructure company powered by Google’s TPU chips.

Blackstone is partnering with Google to launch a U.S.-based AI infrastructure company powered by Google’s TPU chips.

Stocks continue to rally amid the AI boom, but the chip sector is scrambling to shore up access to key materials as costs rise.

Stocks continue to rally amid the AI boom, but the chip sector is scrambling to shore up access to key materials as costs rise.

Russian universities are handing out leaflets that read less like recruitment material and more like a startup pitch:

After launching a hunt for strategic alternatives in January following a phase 3 rare disease flop, Quince Therapeutics has landed on an exit strategy. The Bay Area biotech has announced a merger with a private pulmonary startup called Orphai Therapeutics.

arXiv:2605.15815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code agents increasingly help developers work with unfamiliar repositories, but every such task depends on a costly prerequisite: bootstrapping the repository into a usable development state. This process requires substantial trial-and-error exploration, yet the resulting knowledge--resolved dependencies, repair strategies--stays trapped in a single conversation, unavailable to future agents. We therefore formulate repository bootstrapping as a reusable startup knowledge problem and introduce BootstrapAgent, a multi-agent framework that distills the heuristics discovered during bootstrap exploration into a persistent, verifiable, agent-consumable .bootstrap contract. Through evidence extraction, structured planning, deterministic Docker-based verification, and trace-driven repair, BootstrapAgent generates a contract covering environment setup, diagnostic checks, minimal verification, and accumulated repair knowledge. We further propose

The dream of clean hydrogen has tantalized energy experts for years, but producing it has been tough. Many start-ups think the answer could lie beneath our feet.

Mike Brook’s Neopara Materials combines a novel ingredient with tire rubber to create new materials – like hockey

Varda’s plan to develop medicines in microgravity has its advantages, but it requires a big up-front cost

The American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) CEO David Barrett, JD, noted there has been “a nice uptick” in Q1 in start-up funding compared to the same quarter last year, which he deemed “a really promising indication.” The post ASGCT Q1 Landscape Report Paints Positive Picture for Gene and RNA Therapy appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

While car dealerships and fisheries are less eye-catching than high-flying AI startups, they offer stability and cash flow that's attractive to family offices.

arXiv:2605.14090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We put forth a critical theoretical framework for analyzing generative models both descriptively and normatively. Our thesis is that generative models automate the production not only of intellectual labor or intelligence, but of a broader set of human social capacities we name "social doing." We do this by historicizing the commodification of sociality in the digital economy, leading to the availability of social data as the precondition for generative models. We elaborate our definition of "social doing" by drawing a distinction between "use" and "exchange" sociality and further differentiate between the ways that generative models either substitute for or mediate existing social relations and processes. We then turn to existing empirical research on how people use generative model-based products and the effects that their use has upon them. In this, we introduce the concept of Synthetic Sociality, a social reality in part fabricated

Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.

Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries

Ishmael Reed, provocateur and playwright, has a few words for the billionaires of Silicon Valley.

arXiv:2605.13110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a fully automated multi-agent framework for corporate due diligence and market analysis in venture capital. The system runs on an event-driven orchestration architecture, combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with real-time web retrieval to synthesize unstructured data into structured investment intelligence. A central technical contribution is a programmatic extraction pipeline that reverse-engineers the frontend-to-backend communication of the Greek Business Registry ($\Gamma$.E.MH.), querying dynamic endpoints to retrieve official financial filings that are then parsed using a layout-aware OCR extractor. A structural fallback mechanism explicitly flags data absence rather than generating unverified figures, directly targeting hallucination in financial contexts. All workflow artifacts are publicly available to support replication.

Just a few hours before the Orion spacecraft crossed the sky en route to the moon on April 1, mechatronics engineer Rodrigo Trevisan Okamoto received confirmation he had been waiting for since the Artemis 2 mission was announced in 2023. The email from NASA stated that the crew of the first crewed mission to orbit the moon in half a century would carry a device developed by Okamoto and his team at Condor Instruments, a São Paulo-based startup.

A San Francisco startup thinks the answer to AI’s enormous power appetite isn’t another warehouse-sized facility somewhere out

Fervo Energy, which uses drilling techniques from the oil and gas industry to produce power from the earth’s heat, raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering.

Months-old Ineffable Intelligence announced a record $1.1 billion seed round in April.

Months-old Ineffable Intelligence announced a record $1.1 billion seed round in April.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup called Varda Space Industries is betting that the future of pharmaceuticals lies in orbit. The company has signed a…

Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing. The idea of building things in outer space for use on Earth has so far been explored…

OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.

arXiv:2603.00059v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How well can AI-derived synthetic research data replicate the responses of human participants? An emerging literature has begun to engage with this question, which carries deep implications for organizational research practice. This article presents a comparison between a human-respondent survey of 420 Silicon Valley coders and developers and synthetic survey data designed to simulate real survey takers generated by five leading Generative AI Large Language Models: ChatGPT Thinking 5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro plus Claude CoWork 1.123, Gemini Advanced 2.5 Pro, Incredible 1.0, and DeepSeek 3.2. Our findings reveal that while AI agents produced technically plausible results that lean more towards replicability and harmonization than assumed, none were able to capture the counterintuitive insights that made the human survey valuable. Moreover, deviations grouped together for all models, leaving the real data as the outlier. Our key

arXiv:2605.11839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems deployed across the compute continuum need discovery mechanisms that remain effective across cloud, edge, and intermittently connected domains. In some emerging agentic architectures, decentralized discovery is already an active design direction, placing DHT-based lookup on the path toward agent directories. This paper studies the trade-offs among major structured-overlay families for agent discovery, comparing Chord, Pastry, and Kademlia as candidate indexing substrates within a shared control-plane framework. Using a benchmark subset centered on a 4096-node stationary comparison and a representative 4096-node churn benchmark, the paper characterizes how discovery reliability, startup behavior, and control-plane overhead vary across these overlays. The goal is to clarify the operating points they expose for agent discovery across edge-to-cloud environments.

The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double what it was a year ago.

The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.

Could "dark triad" traits like narcissism and manipulation in leadership actually foster entrepreneurial energy? New research shows they may, but the same traits that build successful start-ups can also break them.

The Rivian Assistant hits the R1S and R1T via the startup's latest software update. The R2 is next.

arXiv:2605.09145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of Engineering Economy as a new paradigm for understanding and managing macroeconomic policy in middle-income countries seeking to escape the middle-income trap. Drawing on Turkiye's post-2001 economic trajectory and South Korea's successful transition from a low-income to a high-income economy, the study argues that conventional frameworks whether the Washington Consensus's market liberalization prescriptions or the institutionalist critique alone are insufficient. Instead, it proposes treating the economy as a dynamic control system requiring continuous calibration rather than static equilibrium. The paper develops a road-surface metaphor (highway, side-road, off-road) to characterize different global economic regimes and presents eleven interconnected policy pillars spanning venture capital formation, regulatory sandboxes, technology-focused industrial policy, and human capital development. By

arXiv:2605.10824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context. Software startups face significant challenges in building minimum viable products, particularly in the early stages, when resources are limited and expertise in user experience is scarce. Objective. Introduce StartFlow, a structured method that helps non-specialized professionals create MVP prototypes using the wireflow technique, a combination of wireframes and user flows. StartFlow consists of three steps: (i) organizing features; (ii) building wireflows; and (iii) verifying and refining them based on usability heuristics. Method. To assess the method Startflow, we first conducted a focus group with researchers in Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and Software Startups. Afterward, we conducted a proof-of-concept study, which consisted of an experiment and a heuristic evaluation with experts. Results. The qualitative analysis of the focus group revealed that participants found the method straightforward,

arXiv:2605.09623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence on resource-constrained IoT devices has grown significantly. However, existing approaches to DNN partitioning and offloading across the edge-cloud continuum typically rely on static methods that ignore runtime dynamics. Furthermore, they are often evaluated in simulated environments rather than on real hardware. To address this gap, we propose a framework that dynamically splits neural network layers across the heterogeneous continuum. The framework profiles the model at startup, measures network link conditions between nodes, and periodically re-evaluates the partition to adapt to environmental changes. We created a physical testbed comprising a Raspberry Pi edge device, a laptop fog, and a high-performance desktop PC as the cloud. We evaluated the framework over three widely adopted convolutional neural networks: VGG16, AlexNet, and MobileNetV2. Our results show that the framework

As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.

The OpenAI Development Company is a partnership with 19 investment and consultancy firms and is majority-owned and controlled by the startup.

The OpenAI Development Company is a partnership with 19 investment and consultancy firms and is majority-owned and controlled by the startup.

A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts warn that the harsh environment could make maintenance challenging

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…

Before joining Redwood Materials, Ahuja served as chief financial and business officer at the drone delivery startup Zipline for about three years.

Before joining Redwood Materials, Ahuja served as chief financial and business officer at the drone delivery startup Zipline for about three years.

Smartphone startups are bringing back the Blackberry idea through physical keyboards and the classic square-shaped smartphone.

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arXiv:2605.05253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the standard approach for grounding large language models in information that was not available during training. While existing datasets and benchmarks focus on web or other public sources, there is still no widely adopted dataset that realistically reflects the nature of company-internal knowledge. Meanwhile, startups, enterprises, and researchers are increasingly developing AI Agents designed to operate over exactly this kind of proprietary data. To close this gap, we release a synthetic enterprise corpus, its generation framework, and a leaderboard. We present EnterpriseRAG-Bench, a dataset consisting of approximately 500,000 documents spanning nine enterprise source types (Slack, Gmail, Linear, Google Drive, HubSpot, Fireflies, GitHub, Jira, and Confluence) and 500 questions across ten categories that test distinct retrieval and reasoning capabilities. The corpus is generated with

A research team has developed a quantitative policy evaluation framework for assessing how cities can attract startups while maintaining high living standards. In this study, the team evaluated the startup ecosystem in an air-front smart city using a model that integrates Quality of Life (QOL), Quality of Business (QOB), and accessibility from both digital and physical dimensions, and revealed that policy, accessibility, and QOL are the key determinants.

Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who has four children with Musk, testified that the Tesla CEO wanted the AI startup to join his EV company.

Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who has four children with Musk, testified that the Tesla CEO wanted the AI startup to join his EV company.

Healthcare startups made up nearly a third of April's investments by family offices.