Bad Guys doing Bad Guy things, film at 11. Bad Guys doing impressively well executed Bad Guy things targeting startup founders specifically: felt like worth mentioning explicitly.
INVESTMENT
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SaaS Infrastructure Costs Impact Million Dollar Economics
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3% of the minimum viable page rotation and 100% of the minimum viable pager rotation both cost $1 million a year though, which is one reason why I am not worried for SaaS companies.
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Hugging Face acquires robotics startup Pollen Robotics
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Hugging Face has acquired the robotics startup Pollen Robotics, according to Fortune. https://
fortune.com/2025/04/14/ai-
company-hugging-face-buys-humanoid-robot-company-pollen-robotics-reachy-2/
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Automate stock investments with AI for profit
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Now automate stock investments and make profit with AI. Insane!
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China’s Technology Strategy: IP Protection and Foreign Investment Barriers
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Like everything it’s complicated. China doesn’t play fair. Back in the 90s they knew foreign companies were desperate to sell to “1.3 billion” new customers so they leveraged that to make it easy to invest there but put all these rules in place to ensure technology and IP
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xAI Valuation Triples to $80 Billion Following Funding Round
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L’annonce de la fusion est intervenue quelques mois seulement après que xAI a bouclé une levée de fonds massive de 6 milliards de dollars.
— Jouhatsu | AI Influence Operator (@Jouhatsu_ai) 13 avril 2025
À ce moment-là, xAI était valorisé à 24 milliards de dollars.
Mais aujourd’hui ?
Sa valorisation a plus que triplé pour atteindre 80… pic.twitter.com/DxwRokWjoeL’annonce de la fusion est intervenue quelques mois seulement après que xAI a bouclé une levée de fonds massive de 6 milliards de dollars. À ce moment-là, xAI était valorisé à 24 milliards de dollars. Mais aujourd’hui ? Sa valorisation a plus que triplé pour atteindre 80
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CHIPS Act Reshoring: Trump Administration Threatens Biden’s Manufacturing Revival
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“I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small businesses to come back to America.”
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 13 avril 2025
Reshoring manufacturing takes time and investment. The bipartisan CHIPS Act, launched under Biden, was doing that in both red and blue states. Trump is going to kill it soon. https://t.co/M8RtbWgkr7“I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small businesses to come back to America.” Reshoring manufacturing takes time and investment. The bipartisan CHIPS Act, launched under Biden, was doing that in both red and blue states. Trump is going to kill it soon.
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OpenAI’s Vertical-Specific Models and Enterprise Growth Strategy
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For those keeping a closer eye on OpenAI and predicting future releases, let me draw your attention to the verticals. We will likely see more and more purpose-built models for specific industries. We will continue to see growth in ChatGPT Enterprise. Microsoft, Google,
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Claude 2.5 Pro: Frontier AI at Affordable Scale
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it’s very easy to gloss over just how hard it is to land models at the frontier that you can also reasonably afford to pay for at scale 2.5 Pro is really something special
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Community First Strategy Over Product Development and Fundraising
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With the product, but no good story, and no community, it goes back to square one. Community first. Product wise, I can get it from India and China much faster then developing it from zero. PS: Raise money to pump price is not sustainable.