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AI in healthcare

Why die when you’ve got AI? The startups racing to outrun aging

You(th) and Avara are putting smartphones and wearables to work to help us live longer and healthier lives

Tim Smith

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Aug 13, 2026

FDE

FDEs have been moving in with their customers. How’s it going?

A year into the forward deployed engineer model, Superhuman, Infor and Leaping AI agree on the upside: deployments that once took months now take weeks. They are also learning what it takes to sustain.

Sage Lazzaro

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Aug 11, 2026

Voice AI

Selling smallness to land the deal

Y Combinator put Leaping AI in front of potential customers, but that was only step one

Sage Lazzaro

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Aug 11, 2026

Open models

Meet the French founder running AI startup Dottxt from a castle

“The only correct answer when a VC asks: ‘What's your moat?’”

Anna Heim

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Aug 7, 2026

Agentic AI

Where ‘agentic’ has to earn its keep

Nucleo's founders came out of Stanford and Apple to automate cancer diagnostics. What they built has an agent inside it, and a fence around it.

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Aug 4, 2026

AI identity rights

The Skateboarder Who Shaped a Deepfake Startup

Bob Burnquist wanted protection from fake endorsements, but he also saw a place for authorized AI images. PersonaShield built around the tension.

Sage Lazzaro

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Jul 29, 2026

AI identity rights

Approved deepfakes, and the model that polices them

PersonaShield’s CEO says every creator he’s spoken to wants images generated of them. They just have requirements. The company turns those into criteria its AI enforces

Sage Lazzaro

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Jul 23, 2026

AI in healthcare

Every surgery now has a replay button

VitVio brought ambient computer vision from grocery stores into the OR. Its founder had to convince clinicians that the software is not there to spy on them

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Jul 21, 2026

The First Customer

Lockdown broke the last mile. Manna flew over it

Food delivery was the plan. Then Covid-19 turned a drone startup into a vital lifeline for elderly people needing medicine.

Tim Smith

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Jul 17, 2026

Robotics and Physical AI

Drone delivery sees AI take to the skies, but not everyone’s buzzing about it

Manna Air Delivery and Flytrex are using AI to make the futuristic vision of drone delivery a reality. But will communities accept these airborne interlopers?

Tim Smith

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Jul 16, 2026

The First Customer

Inside mpathic's first sale

It started as a free consult. It ended as a five-year, multimillion-dollar relationship

Sage Lazzaro

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Jun 26, 2026

AI in mental health

The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?

Circuit Breaker Labs and mpathic are both trying to save chatbot users from mental health crises. They’re just doing it in totally opposite ways

Sage Lazzaro

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Jun 26, 2026

Robotics and Physical AI

Farmbots: bringing AI into the fields

Ecorobotix has developed precision crop-spraying machines that cut down on chemical costs. FarmDroid lets farmers autonomously seed and weed their fields. The two are using very different approaches to deploying AI

Tim Smith

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Jun 12, 2026