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Shelly Xu Designs uses AI to reengineer clothing patterns, cutting fabric waste to near zero—without asking factories or consumers to change a thing. f-st.co/MiBaOKG

.@MatthewMathes11 of @trunkio on the two engineer archetypes he thinks become especially valuable as AI takes on more generalist work: deep subject matter experts + creative builders who can take an idea all the way to customers. Full episode of High Bit Live at youtube.com/watch?v=vfJPHV…

Today Nino goes live in beta. A dedicated CFP + CPA team, backed by software that sees your whole financial life. The advice that used to require a family office, for the rest of us. 🧵

Laundry pickup and delivery looks simple from the outside. Under the hood, it’s a hard logistics problem. @noscrubslaundry is expanding into Silicon Valley with its AI-driven distributed laundry network, partnering with local operators to improve speed, quality, and scalability. Congrats to the NoScrubs team on the expansion! americancoinop.com/articles/noscr…

Today we're launching Glass for Patients, the personal AI agent for your health. Glass reviews all of your healthcare data and analyzes it alongside the world's medical knowledge to help you continually understand and optimize your health. Get started at glass.health/for-patients

.@greptile's @dakshgup at High Bit Live talking about a new class of engineers: new grads who learned to code with AI from the start. Watch the full convo with Daksh, @trunkio’s @MatthewMathes11, and Initialized’s @brettdg at youtu.be/vfJPHVYBf2M?si…

Tune in to our first-ever live recording of High Bit with Initialized’s @brettdg, @greptile's @dakshgup, and @trunkio’s Matt Matheson. The trio dig into building at the center of the AI engineering shift — what happens when teams ship faster than their review and testing processes can keep up, rethinking team size and autonomy, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=vfJPHV…

Valar Atomics Inc., a California-based nuclear startup, generated power from an advanced reactor to run an Nvidia Corp. AI chip. While just a trickle of electricity was produced, it’s the first time a next-gen reactor has done so in the US. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Today, Valar Atomics became the first nuclear startup to make electricity, and we did it by powering an NVIDIA Spark. This is the first meeting of advanced nuclear and AI; two technologies which will transform the next century. But that’s only the start of our collaboration.

Live from the Ward 250 nuclear site, Valar Atomics and NVIDIA present WATTS NEXT. Tune in now! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

4th of July festivities

Excited to announce that we're shipping LightTwist publicly! LightTwist lets you record and stream in a realistic virtual studio, even if your guests and co-hosts are remote.

“You cannot build the AI economy on top of materials that were not designed for it.” Initialized Partner @zcperret shares why she led our investment in @arcturustechinc, and why the next era of infrastructure depends on better materials at the core of the power grid. Arcturus is developing a new class of metals for a world where electrification, AI data centers, and industrial demand are pushing existing power systems to their limits. Founder and CEO Amir Mashal brings a rare cross-disciplinary edge: nanomaterials, manufacturing, and electrical engineering. Read Zoe’s full post on why Arcturus is tackling a critical bottleneck in energy infrastructure: blog.initialized.com/2026/06/the-ai…

Co-founder & CEO of Sygaldry Technologies @chadrigetti, says quantum can speed up AI training by “several orders of magnitude”:

Amir Mashal started @arcturustechinc to tackle a massive problem: our grid was built for a different century, and nearly 15% of U.S. electricity is lost before we use it. After building the first prototype in his garage, Amir and the team are developing high-performance conductors designed to run cooler, carry more power, and last longer. We’re proud to lead Arcturus’ $8 million seed round, with participation from @1517fund, @Toyota_Ventures, @Breakthrough, @WireframeVC, and @ClimateCap. A massive congratulations to Amir and his team on officially coming out of stealth today! Read more from @tdechant in @TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/arc…

As much as 20% of the electricity on the grid is lost as heat. What if we could get it back? One startup, Arcturus, has developed copper and aluminum that could cut that figure in half. The secret? Using lasers to infuse metals with carbon nanomaterials. techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/arc…

This Wednesday at 3PM ET, please join Valar Atomics and NVIDIA for a special livestream on the future of atomic energy and artificial intelligence.

introducing greptile's free tier. we've made a lot of improvements over the past few months to greptile, and we want to share those with more developers. you can now get 50 reviews per month as a solo developer for free

Rippling Data Cloud recently launched to connect data across a company’s workforce and business systems, giving leaders greater visibility into AI usage, spend, and performance. “The high performers spend the most, which you would sort of expect. But the dashboard also flags engineers with high spend and high peer rejection rates on code reviews. These are people whose colleagues are frequently asking them to redo something. If your peers are telling you to go back and do this over all the time, maybe you’re just generating a lot of slop.” - @Rippling CEO @parkerconrad

"In many of these situations, the visual intelligence, the time, really gives them a head start." @Pano_AI co-founder Arvind Satyam on what their wildfire detection cameras are doing across 17 U.S. states. Last year alone, the tech detected 725 wildfires in the U.S. In Arizona, it's catching fires 45 minutes faster than the first 911 call. Read the full story in @AP: apnews.com/article/ai-wil…