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Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog’s Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise
Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a "verticalized" creation, social media and streaming service, according to an investor deck.

Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-creates-spotify-catalog-music-two-weeks-pitch-deck/…

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog’s Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise
Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a "verticalized" creation, social media and streaming service, according to an investor deck.

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

The two ends of the Capitol are worlds apart -- as the founders intended (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/16/shutdown-senate-house-power-founders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p9#a251116p9

Angor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor

“In the media, success is often reduced to the size of a company or the bank account of its founder. Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity?”
Why there’s no European Google? https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-euro…

Funderar på att gå vidare med @… och ge ut bra texter som jag stöter på. Vi har fått in ett par lovande manus. Och så finns fransk- och spanskspråkig litteratur som kan översättas. Frågan är bara hur det ska finansieras – och tiden hittas. Det är rätt stora investeringar, ekonomiskt (risken att gå back är avsevärd som litet förlag) och i form av arbete. Dessutom vill vi inte l…

Pro-Trump 'failed inventor' fundraising to illegally preserve photos of 2020 AZ ballots - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/jovan-pulitzer/

Wabi, a "YouTube for apps" launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda to let users create and share mini apps without coding, raised a $20M pre-seed (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/replika-founder-raises-20m-pre-seed…

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’  | TechCrunch
Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends.

A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…

Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.