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- Victor Boyd built an autonomous forklift from scratch — and deployed it in a pharmaceutical warehouse
- Alex Shieh is using AI to hunt $600B in government fraud — and gets paid only if he wins
- Nick Dobroshinsky, the youngest-ever Thiel Fellow, built an AI equity research platform in eighth grade
- Juicebox's AI recruiting agents go deeper than LinkedIn filters — now serving 5,000+ customers across industries
- Antoni Kiszka is building a derivatives exchange for everything — starting with meme coins, targeting hydrogen and beyond
- Galen Mead is building computer use base models at a research lab targeting AGI
- Aubrey Niederhoffer moved to Nigeria at 15 to build Swoop, a super app targeting Africa's $2.6T digital payments market
- Samuel Carvalho's Praso is profitable with 100 staff, serving 10,000+ Brazilian restaurants in a $50B wholesale market
- MIT dropout Claire Wang is simulating nervous systems in worms to unlock better brain-computer interfaces
NEWS
- Thoma Bravo hands Medallia to creditors in $5.1B equity wipeout
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, a new agentic model built for real-world task completion
- Meta cuts 10% of workforce — 8,000 jobs eliminated alongside Microsoft early retirement push
- US government moves to block China's industrial-scale AI distillation attacks on frontier models
- Trump administration eyes $500M rescue loan for Spirit Airlines with equity warrants
- Intel beats Q1 earnings and raises Q2 guidance on data center strength; Tesla beats top and bottom line