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Fusion breakthroughs. Grid strain. Figuring out how to actually power AI's next decade.

The new Smart Systems Stage at Disrupt this October is all about solving the hard problems, and you can join in to be a part of the solutions. https://t.co/pT43wCHLLW

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Archer has raised nearly $4 billion and CEO @adamgoldstein13 says taking @flyarcher public early was a decision he’d make “every single time.”

But going public comes with a new challenge: proving progress every 90 days.
Watch the full episode of Build Mode: https://t.co/Gf5DH6tj3x

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Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
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Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
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Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
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Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building
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Stablecoins, instant payments, and AI's growing role in financial trust: Our new Smart Money Stage brings the people building all three onto one agenda, this October at Disrupt.

Make the prudent financial call and act now to save $200 on your ticket. https://t.co/bD9LCEMwch

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Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then..
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This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
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Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
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In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
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UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
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“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
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AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
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Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
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What's actually next for AI in the enterprise? The Disrupt AI Stage brings in leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and takes everything from the SaaS reckoning to the emerging agent security gap head-on this October.

Explore the lineup, and get $200 off your ticket today. https://t.co/PxFof8elpk

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Just two months after it emerged from stealth, Bluecore Energy raised another $50M for its mission to put small nuclear reactors on floating barges.

The company says the portable plants could deliver clean power to ports, data centers and communities, pending review by the NRC and Coast Guard.

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Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
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