Uncle Sam just overhauled the H-1B visa lottery, and that's good news for startups

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Reforms to the H-1B visa program aim to ensure all individuals have the same chance of being selected in the lottery.
Reforms to the H-1B visa program aim to ensure all individuals have the same chance of being selected in the lottery.

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Meet the 6 startups reimagining the future of customer engagement with generative AI

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Product development, launching, analysis and market validation. MVP, minimum viable product concept for lean startup

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2023 was a breakout year for generative AI that significantly advanced how companies build and deploy AI-powered products and experiences. 

Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge bought SoftBank's diversity fund. Now they're trying to raise $200 million for it.

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Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge of the Open Opportunity Fund
Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge of the Open Opportunity Fund.

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Inside the company that calls itself 'Moneyball-plus'

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"I'm a believer in capitalism," says Michael Schwimer, who founded Big League Advantage to cash in on the future earnings of teenage athletes.

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Researchers at Anthropic taught AI chat bots how to lie, and they were way too good at it

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"The Terminator."

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Today's GenAI models are cost and energy pigs. Quantum tech could fix that.

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Christopher Savoie, CEO of AI startup Zapata
Christopher Savoie, CEO of AI startup Zapata Computing

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Some of the best early-stage startup investors share a common trait that should be a lesson for Silicon Valley

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Investors are holding back a wave of pre-IPO startups last valued at lofty price tags during the pandemic era.

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Cactos builds energy storage systems with old Tesla batteries. It just raised $28.5 million with this 24-slide pitch deck.

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The Cactos team stand alongside battery storage units.

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Zero knowledge proofs could 'fix the Internet' and make us all trust each other again, former Merck CIO says

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Toposware founder CEO Theo Gauthier
Toposware founder CEO Theo Gauthier

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Airbnb hosts are happily paying this startup $49 a month to take out the trash

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Can Monkey was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2018.

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