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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B

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Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch

It's been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination

The age of AI slop is upon us.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array

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Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array - Nature Physics

Most atom-based quantum networks emit photons at non-telecom wavelengths, requiring lossy conversion for long-distance links. A scalable approach for generating direct entanglement between atoms and telecom-band photons has now been demonstrated.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

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Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Entangled quantum states enhance and preserve energy transfer in light-harvesting--like systems with long-range interactions, and trapped-ion experiments can simulate these processes to thereby guide ...

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas

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Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas - Nature Communications

Sensor failures and limited resolution challenge many complex systems. Here, authors develop a multimodal AI method to generate super-resolution of a sensor using other available sensors in the system, revealing hidden dynamics in fusion plasmas and enabling cost-effective, high-resolution diagnostics.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI's SaaS attack has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.

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OpenAI's SaaS era has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.

OpenAI showed off new AI tools for sales, support, and contracts, posing a direct threat to software-as-a-service leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M

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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M | TechCrunch

Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming

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This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming

The Screen Actors Guild seethed about the digital avatar in a statement where it declared why "creativity is, and should remain, human-centered."

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product

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Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product

Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine-tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats

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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats | TechCrunch

Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch

Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

The sludgy rise of workslop

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Workslop is oozing into every corner of America's white-collar offices

Are those weekly work memos getting longer and more annoying? Here's why.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device

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Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device - Nature

An electrically driven perovskite laser is constructed by vertically integrating a low-threshold single-crystal perovskite microcavity sub-unit with a high-power microcavity perovskite LED sub-unit.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation

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Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation

One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the...

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

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Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said the advice he gives students is different in the AI world.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 2d

Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks

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Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks | TechCrunch

Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry...

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 10d

TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech

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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 13d

Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors

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Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors | TechCrunch

Tim Chen, solo VC at his firm Essence VC, just closed his fourth fund, a fresh $41 million, without even trying.

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Scott Amyx @scottamyx.bsky.social · 13d

Gen Z's hiring nightmare is really about discrimination. 'Youngism' is worse than AI when it comes to eating entry-level jobs

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