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In an era where AI is reshaping how businesses operate, the journey of building an early-stage startup has never been more dynamic—or complex. How do founders navigate finding product-market fit, delegation, and scaling, all while adapting to technological innovations?

Join on January 14 at 3 pm PT for a fireside chat with Christina Cacioppo, CEO and Co-founder of Vanta, and Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Founder of LTSE, as they explore the journey of the modern startup founder.

Eric and Christina will discuss:

• Learnings from their own experiences
• How the principles of “founder mode” and lean methodology intersect
• The ways that today's AI-driven landscape shapes early-stage growth and startup success

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References to an 'Apple Invites' app were first found in one of the iOS 18.2 betas. They were removed from the final version, but they are now back in iOS 18.3 beta 2. The app is likely designed to help users organize meetings and in-person events. It will essentially show a list of people invited to an event and who has already confirmed attendance. It is unclear whether Invites will be a standalone app or if Apple will integrate it with other parts of its system.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has hinted at broader ambitions for the Arm-based CPU within the GB10 Grace Blackwell chip. MediaTek, the chip's co-developer, also has its own aspirations. Huang recently introduced Nvidia's Project Digits at CES 2025. The cutting-edge $3,000 desktop AI supercomputer delivers an impressive 1 petaFLOPS of FP4 floating-point performance, making it a powerful tool for running AI models and workloads for home enthusiasts and researchers.

NASA will need until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return mission will work. The space agency has whittled the options to two: use the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which would employ the sky crane technology to deposit a lander on the surface of the red planet, or use a commercial vendor to get a lander to Mars. The plan relies on the Perseverance trundlebot being able to make it to the lander. The JPL option would cost between $6.6 billion and $7.7 billion, while the commercial providers may cost between $5.8 billion and $7.1 billion. NASA has not provided details on what the commercial vendors suggested due to proprietary information concerns.

The Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xiangshan project aims to use the permissively licensed RISC-V ISA to create a high-performance chip. It has published the designs of its third-generation chip called Kunminghu, a 64-bit RISC-V architecture that supports multiple parallel processing units capable of integer, floating-point, and vector operations. The designs will be available under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, use, modify, or distribute.

Stagehand is a tool for building browser automations. It offers three simple AI APIs to provide the building blocks for web automation via natural language. Stagehand is fully compatible with Playwright - it makes Playwright more accessible to non-technical users and less vulnerable to minor changes in the UI/DOM. Anything that can be done in a browser can be done with Stagehand.

The web's caching model recently underwent a fundamental shift that challenges many performance optimization assumptions. Browsers traditionally maintained a simple key-value store for cached resources. While efficient, this model leaked information. With the new model, double-keyed caching, browsers use two pieces of information: the top-level site making the request and the resource's URL. It caches identical resources separately for each site that requests them, effectively partitioning the cache and preventing cross-site tracking and other privacy issues - a trade-off between security and efficiency.

StackOverflow received 87,105 new questions in March 2023. This number was reduced to 58,792 by March 2024, and by December it was 25,566. The site is becoming more outdated and questions are being closed more than ever before. StackOverflow was already in decline before ChatGPT's launch. It was just so big that it took years to topple to the ground.

CES has so far been a big show for laptops, gaming, TVs, and smart home tech. This year has had a focus on some trendier emerging categories like AI and AR. This page contains a collection of articles that cover all the news from the event. Some of the highlights from the event include the Razer gaming chair, which heats and cools; a robotic vacuum with arms and legs; Nvidia's Digits supercomputer; and Mirumi, a shy sloth-like robot.

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This article looks at the factors that determine engineer status - who gets promoted, who doesn't, who gets assigned the exciting work, and who gets put on maintenance duty.

This book guides readers on how to build a small operating system step-by-step from scratch.

Broccoli is a robust message queue system for Rust applications that features asynchronous message processing, configurable retry strategies, connection pooling, type-safe message handling, flexible message processing patterns, and more.

Elon Musk was originally granted the pay package in 2018, but Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick denied the payment twice.

Mike Johns, founder and CEO of Digital Mind State, an AI consultancy, recently found himself stuck in a Waymo vehicle circling a parking lot, unable to get out.

The job cuts will affect less than 1% of employees.