NewsRecent dispatches from the Metaplanet universeIntroducing Inflection for Enterprise07.10.24Oura Ring 4, Powered by Smart Sensing, Is Here03.10.24Inside Elon Musk’s AI party at OpenAI’s old headquarters03.10.24Black Forest Labs, the startup behind Grok’s image generator, releases an API03.10.24Elon Musk’s xAI moves into OpenAI’s old HQ03.10.24Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma01.10.249 startups that stood out on YC Demo Day 226.09.24Helios Technologies Extends History of Quarterly Dividends With 111th Consecutive Cash Dividend24.09.24Pyka fields interest from defense as $40M round goes to scaling up its electric autonomous planes23.09.24Luminate's hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care18.09.24Substack is trying to turn its writers into streamers18.09.24Opentrons introduces Flex Prep: A no-code robot offering the simplicity of a pipette with the versatility of a liquid handler12.09.24Contraline & Population Council Announce 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Medicine12.08.24Substack now lets anyone publish posts, even if they don’t have a newsletter09.08.24Third-Annual EON Event Announces Prominent Speakers in Applied AI08.08.24Now anybody with a Substack account can publish content08.08.24H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding06.08.24Open source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5M developers01.08.24bit.bio Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Przemek Obloj as Chief Financial Officer31.07.24Ansa Biotechnologies Pushes Limits of Complex DNA Synthesis with Launch of New Commercial Products30.07.24Robust.AI Continues to Expand Leadership and Product Teams with Customer-Centric Expertise30.07.24An Apple bug was causing Substack writers to panic.30.07.24Nanotronics Unveils nSpec ES: A Revolutionary Educational Tool Empowering Semiconductor Research and Training Programs Across the Nation25.07.24Substack writers can now draft and publish posts in iOS app25.07.24Astranis is set to build 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hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team28.05.24Finnish Smart Ring Company ŌURA Launches in Store Exclusively at John Lewis28.05.24Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest27.05.24Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B from Valor, a16z and Sequoia26.05.24Deal Dive: Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? 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Disorders13.12.23Enevate Announces Production License Agreement with CustomCells, a Major Milestone in Commercializing Its Breakthrough Battery Technology in Europe and the Rest of the World12.12.23ŌURA Reaches Milestone of 600+ Partnerships and Integrations as It Builds a Large-Scale Ecosystem30.11.23bit.bio Unveils Cell Therapy Pipeline, Including Lead Candidate for Acute Liver Failure, and Significantly Expands Scientific Advisory Board with Global Experts in Cell Therapy08.11.23Kaleidoscope Announces First Artist Collaboration - 8 Hour Sleep Album With Sleeping At Last30.10.23Solugen and ADM Announce Strategic Partnership to Meet Increasing Demand for Sustainable Products with New Biomanufacturing Facility in the U.S. Midwest30.10.23Audi Business Innovation and LifeScore Music Announce Collaboration for Well-Being content to make Audi’s customers’ time in the car more valuable23.10.23ŌURA Expands Retail Footprint into Canada with Best Buy Partnership23.10.23Sasol Chemicals and 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Health to Transform Health Testing19.07.23Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop18.07.23Astranis will launch a dedicated internet satellite for the Philippines next year11.07.23Cabinet Health Launches National Recycling Program to Address Pharmaceutical Plastic Waste20.06.23bit.bio Strengthens Leadership Team With Appointment of Dr Michael Booth as Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Investor Relations12.06.23Cabinet Health Launches in National Pharmacies to Expand Access to Refillable + Compostable Medicine25.05.23Astranis’ novel approach to internet satellites is starting to pay off24.05.23Ansa Biotechnologies Announces First Shipments of Complex Clonal DNA Sequences to Customers in its Early Access Program22.05.23Node by Node22.05.23Opentrons aims to democratize lab access with its Flex robot22.05.23ŌURA Acquires Proxy in All-Equity Deal09.05.23Mekonos Announces Research Collaboration With bit.bio to Advance Cell 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