FemtoAI’s Growth Signals Shift Toward AI on Every Device
FemtoAI reported a breakout year in 2025, shipping over 100,000 units of its Sparse Processing Unit (SPU) accelerator and closing a new funding round. The company launched its first commercial product, an AI‑powered OTC hearing aid sold by NewSound on Amazon, and announced the SPU‑001 chip that delivers 100× lower power use, a ten‑fold smaller footprint, and ten‑fold faster integration. Strategic moves included joining NVIDIA’s Inception program, partnering with the EDGE AI Foundation, and expanding its leadership team. The firm also earned the IC Taiwan Grand Challenge and Startup Terrace awards, underscoring its growing market credibility.
Dot Ai Announces Partnership with Wiliot to Innovate Industrial-Grade Ambient IoT Solutions
Dot Ai, an AI‑driven SaaS provider of asset‑intelligence solutions, has entered a three‑year strategic partnership with ambient‑IoT specialist Wiliot. The deal enables commercialization of the first true industrial implementation of Wiliot’s tag, featuring a patent‑pending plasmonic folded ground‑plane that improves...
TruePath Vision Expands AI Platform with Weapon Detection to Enhance Safety in Hotels, Schools, and Public Venues
TruePath Vision has launched a weapon‑detection capability on its AI computer‑vision platform, extending real‑time threat awareness to hotels, schools and other public venues. The solution identifies firearms, knives and suspicious behaviors using existing IP‑based cameras, eliminating the need for costly...
2025: Top Five Movers and Shakers Stories of the Year
2025 saw a wave of senior leadership changes across major financial institutions. Monzo announced CEO TS Anil will exit in February 2026, with Diana Layfield taking the helm. Revolut appointed Béatrice Cossa‑Dumurgier as Western Europe CEO to drive its €1 billion...
U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control removed three individuals tied to the Intellexa Consortium—responsible for the Predator commercial spyware—from the Specially Designated Nationals list. The delisting followed petitions asserting the subjects had distanced themselves from the consortium, though...
Europe’s Founders and VCs Share Their New Year Resolutions for 2026
European founders and venture capitalists outlined their 2026 New Year resolutions, emphasizing mental space, delegation, and personal well‑being as they scale fast‑moving startups. Leaders at Tem, Flown, Harmonic Security and TestGorilla pledged to create breathing room and step back from...
VC's AI Predictions for 2026
The episode examines why venture capitalists are forecasting 2026 as the breakthrough year for enterprise AI adoption, contrasting these hype cycles with current data that shows many firms still struggle to achieve ROI from AI projects. It highlights key barriers...
Celebrating Midnight
Astronauts on the International Space Station will pass midnight sixteen times on New Year’s Eve.
AI-Backed Insilico Medicine Hits HKEX IPO Milestone
Sinovation Ventures (创新工场) backed and double-downed on Insilico Medicine since 2019, led by my partner Richard Y. , with a firm belief that AI will accelerate healthcare and medicine development. Congratulations to Insilico Medicine on the Hong Kong Exchanges and...
Stop Seeking Permission, Build Your Own Path
At 38, I asked everyone if I should quit my job and start a business. My friends said no. My coworkers said no. Everyone with an opinion said no. I did it anyway. Here's what I learned: The people around...
Google Opal
Google has launched Opal, a no‑code platform that lets users create AI‑powered mini‑apps using natural language prompts. The tool combines rapid prototyping, allowing functional prototypes in minutes, with an intuitive node‑based visual editor for logic refinement. Access is gated behind...
Grind Daily in AI or Become a Liability
There are two types of people in AI right now: the ones grinding daily, and the ones about to be passed permanently. AI is a live game. Every day you either level up or fall behind. The top players grind daily. They...
2025 SaaS M&A: Fundamentals Trump Hype for Premium Deals
SaaS M&A in 2025 with Jim Williams (GLC Advisors) 🎙️ Selective buyers, fundamentals > hype, and real paths to premium outcomes. Watch the End-of-Year Special 👇 https://t.co/qRnBVxuCM5 https://t.co/SaoVpLEL7c
From $500K to $1.5M ARR: Bootstrapping VR SaaS for Trade Skills
In this episode Sabari Nair, CEO of Skillveri, details how his VR‑based vocational training platform grew from $500K to $1.5M ARR by bundling a $4K‑per‑year SaaS subscription with optional hardware add‑ons and leveraging a reseller‑led go‑to‑market strategy. He explains the...
Adobe Partners with Runway for Exclusive AI Video Tools
“Adobe and Runway will collaborate to develop specialized AI capabilities for professional video workflows that will be exclusively available in Adobe applications” Lord please let after effects get the attention it deserves
Best Companies for SaaS Platform Modernization
SaaS platform modernization replaces legacy monoliths with cloud‑native, distributed architectures, enabling scalability, reliability, and new feature delivery. The blog identifies ten firms—Codebridge, Zartis, Binary Studio, Altoros, Futurice, DeepInspire, Dev.Pro, Xebia, Brights, and Equal Experts—selected for proven enterprise‑scale modernization experience and...
The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard
The episode examines the IACR's botched Helios election, where a key management failure forced the organization to discard the vote and schedule a new election. Guest Matt Bernhard, an expert in secure voting systems, explains how Helios' homomorphic encryption works,...
Prioritize Direct-Response Over Brand Until $10M
Ignore everything “brand awareness” until you hit $10M Focus on everything direct-response. If you can't track it, don't do it.
Meta Pays $2B for $100M ARR Startup
Meta is acquiring Manus for $2 billion. Manus disclosed $100 million in ARR achieved in eight months, 147 trillion tokens processed since launch. Can we use those figures to explain the acquisition price?
Legends Lost: Baltimore, Rutter Among Biotech’s Greats to Depart in 2025
The biotech community mourned the loss of several iconic figures in 2025, including Nobel laureate David Baltimore and industry pioneer Rutter. Their careers spanned groundbreaking scientific discoveries, the founding of biotech firms, and the cultivation of global research ecosystems. The...
E198: Podcast with Cures & Capital Part 1
Dr. Andre Bates, founder and CEO of Eularis, explains how AI has progressed from early digitisation to the generative AI era and why ChatGPT marked a turning point for pharma executives. She identifies common pitfalls that keep organisations stuck in...
New Shai Hulud 3.0 Malware Variant Raises Fresh Supply Chain Security Concerns
Security researchers at Aikido Security have identified Shai Hulud 3.0, a new variant of the JavaScript‑focused supply‑chain worm. The malware embeds malicious code in npm packages, using enhanced obfuscation, modular architecture, and broader runtime compatibility to evade detection. Although currently limited to...
Launch Previews: Worldwide Launch Manifest Quiet as 2026 Begins
The global launch calendar eases into 2026 with only four missions slated for the coming week. China will fire a Chang Zheng 4B carrying the cartography‑focused Tianhui 7 satellite and a Chang Zheng 7A with an undisclosed payload. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will deliver...
AI Builder Communities Drive Global App Innovation
Big trend for 2026: AI builder communities. Here in USA @wabi is demonstrating that. Every day I see a few more interesting apps shared with its community. Over in China @YouWareAI is leading the way. Just judged its hackathon and was...
AI Search Demands B2B Brands Be Findable and Buyable
The way today’s B2B buyers discover, evaluate, and trust brands is changing faster than at any point since the rise of search. And when it comes to the rising importance of AI, the pressure to "figure it out" is on....
The History of Sales Technology: From Ledgers and Telephones to AI-Driven Revenue Systems
The article traces sales technology from handwritten ledgers and telegraphs to today’s AI‑driven revenue platforms, highlighting each era’s friction‑reducing breakthrough. Early tools like the telephone and automobile expanded reach and speed, while mid‑century computing introduced centralized data. The rise of...
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers
A recent investigation uncovered that Honey’s browser shopping extension deliberately alters its behavior when it detects potential testers. The plugin honors affiliate‑network stand‑down rules for new accounts, low‑point users, blacklisted IDs, or those with affiliate‑industry cookies, but bypasses those rules...
ServiceNow Lays Out Possible Co-CEO Structure, but Says No Change Imminent
ServiceNow has amended CEO Bill McDermott’s employment contract, extending his tenure through December 31 2030 and adding the possibility of serving as co‑CEO, executive chairman or non‑executive chairman. The SEC filing emphasizes that no leadership change is imminent and that any role shift...
Poker Teaches, Business Compounds: Master Both for Success
Poker is a great vehicle for learning the ups and downs of business. However, it's a tough game to completely rely on if you want to have outsized returns in life. It doesn't really have the compounding aspects of business. In...
AI Takes Over Coding as Elite Engineers Step Back
This feels like a watershed moment. When the best engineers in the world are no longer writing a single line of code, and barely even looking at the code that's being generated. This would have sounded insane just a year ago. Hard...
Industry Outlook 2026: The Impact of Novel Therapies
In 2025 the pharmaceutical sector saw a surge of novel therapies, notably next‑generation biologics such as bispecifics, fusion proteins, multi‑specifics, and a wave of antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs). A breakthrough sub‑category, antibody‑oligo conjugates (AOCs), gained traction for muscular dystrophy, highlighted by...
Plan 2026 AI Strategy with Dual-Scenario Action Playbook
My recommendation is to take every 2026 AI prediction newsletter or article or YouTube video you see (including mine), throw them into NotebookLM and ask the following question: # BACKGROUND I'm a [your job title] at [your company] in [your industry]. My...
Market Demand Is Fixed; Build Fit Before Marketing
"Every software product you build, fate has already decided the outcome. The market is either going latch onto your product and run with it, or it's not. Do not ship a product, find a lack of success, and then try to...
From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry
Ari Zilka, former Hortonworks CPO and founder of MyDecisive.ai, highlighted at KubeCon 2025 that 23 observability vendors are delivering nearly identical reactive dashboards that only surface problems after failures occur. He argued that CIOs consistently demand lower mean time to...
3 SEO Predictions for 2026
Ann Smarty forecasts three seismic shifts for SEO in 2026: zero‑click discovery via generative AI will siphon organic clicks as chat‑based platforms deliver product recommendations without page visits; monetization of large‑language‑model services will spawn paid add‑ons and new performance metrics;...
Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo
Kasava runs its entire platform—including frontend, backend, marketing site, documentation, and external tools—in a single monorepo. By storing everything as code, a single commit updates pricing limits across the API, UI, website, and docs without coordination. The approach enables AI...
Social Feeds Are the New Search Engines in 2026
People aren’t just searching on Google anymore. They’re searching on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube—and that shift is redefining SEO in 2026. In this video, I break down how social platforms have become the new search engines, how discovery now starts...
Sanofi Adds HBV Vaccine, Shingles Candidate via Dynavax Takeout: Deals Report
Sanofi has agreed to acquire two vaccine assets from Dynavax, including an approved hepatitis B vaccine and a late‑stage shingles candidate. The transaction, announced in late December 2025, adds to Sanofi’s existing vaccine portfolio and broadens its reach in both...
Future‑Predicting AI Assistants Balance Life Goals and Risks
A @waymo predicts the future. It predicts where that bicycle rider will be in a few seconds, then makes its plan accordingly. What if you had an AI that could predict your next move? That's the topic @IrenaCronin and I wrote about...
A Coding Implementation of an OpenAI-Assisted Privacy-Preserving Federated Fraud Detection System From Scratch Using Lightweight PyTorch Simulations
The tutorial walks through building a privacy‑preserving federated fraud‑detection system from scratch using lightweight, CPU‑only PyTorch. It simulates ten independent banks, partitions highly imbalanced transaction data with a Dirichlet distribution, and coordinates local model updates via a FedAvg loop. After...
Churn Wins Over Ecosystem Hype: Deliver Real Results
Last week a founder friend was in town and I had him over for coffee. He's been stuck at $2.5-$3m ARR for 9 months, is burning $400k/mo, closing a TON of new business, but can’t get ahead of churn. He...
AI Turns Research From Speed Tool Into Insight Superpower
There are actually two ways to use AI for research. The first is obvious. The second is a superpower. The first is to speed up what you were already going to do. Duh. Researching competitors. Looking up people before meetings....
Colossal Biosciences Wins 2025 The Screamers Award for Science Hype on Dire Wolf De-Extinction Claim
Colossal Biosciences was awarded the 2025 The Screamers Award for its overstated claim of de‑extincting the dire wolf. In reality the firm only introduced a handful of dire‑wolf‑related gene edits into existing gray wolves, leaving the animals genetically gray wolves....
Navigate CES 2026 AI: Your Essential Itinerary
AI Enthusiasts at CES 2026: A Sample Itinerary If you’re heading to CES 2026 with AI high on your agenda, this official guide is a smart place to start. The itinerary maps how AI shows up across the week, from infrastructure and...
SoftBank Completes $40B OpenAI Deal After Months of Buildup
SoftBank Group has completed its roughly $40 billion investment in OpenAI, bringing its ownership to just over 10%. The final tranche of $22‑22.5 billion was transferred after earlier $8 billion and $10 billion installments. To fund the deal, SoftBank sold its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia...
Navigate CES 2026 AI: A Clear Itinerary Guide
AI Enthusiasts at CES 2026: A Sample Itinerary If you’re heading to CES 2026 with AI high on your agenda, this official guide is a smart place to start. The itinerary maps how AI shows up across the week, from...
XAI Expands to Third Building, Nearing 2GW Compute
xAI has bought a third building called MACROHARDRR. Will take @xAI training compute to almost 2GW. Try @Grok. Download latest app.
Microsoft Announces New Security Features to Boost Teams Defenses
Microsoft will automatically enable three critical messaging safety features in Teams starting Jan 12, 2026, shifting to a secure‑by‑default stance. The protections include weaponizable file type blocking, real‑time malicious URL detection, and a user feedback mechanism for false positives. Administrators...
Simple AI Apps Deliver Massive Revenue and Growth
Simple app ideas are crushing it! Look at this AI text humanizer on @acquiredotcom: > $550K TTM revenue > $392K TTM profit > 269% YoY growth Check full listing: https://t.co/J9L0LHJ8o1 https://t.co/dssv07wJMb
AI Dashboards Turn Finance From Maintenance to Decision‑making
AI dashboards > spreadsheets 📊🤖 Describe the question AI builds the dashboard You tweak formulas & visuals Insights arrive during the meeting Finance moves from maintenance → decisions. #AI #FPandA #Dashboards #GenAI #DataAnalytics https://t.co/p7AKgRQyQh