Advances in robotics and seabed electrification have enabled a trio of startups to pursue deep sea reverse osmosis.
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Yesterday
Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all; plus Waymo expanding across Bay Area and SoCal; and Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business
Reuters reports that the executive order has been put on hold. If signed, the order would probably face significant opposition, including from Republicans who previously criticized the proposed moratorium on state regulation.
Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotax ... Show More
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Nov 21
CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider,’ X rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature, and Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules
-Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network.
-X's new feature will show where users are based, how they're connected to X, and how many times they've changed their use ... Show More
8m 40s
May 2025
Startups Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
There's never been a better time to start an AI company. Not just because there are new ideas, but because the tech finally makes old ones actually work.On the Lightcone, Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared talk through the kinds of startups that are suddenly viable thanks to LLMs—from ... Show More
40m 46s
Sep 12
We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI
After investing in robotics startups for 10 years, Seth Winterroth, a partner at Eclipse, said the time to invest in robotics has never been better. The robotics startup market has matured and the hardware and software powering these bots has gotten significantly better — and che ... Show More
8m 49s
Nov 2024
Best of: The future of underwater robotics
<p>The field of robotics has a long history at Stanford Engineering, and Professor <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/oussama-khatib">Oussama Khatib</a> has been a pioneering leader in that field, working on everything from human-interactive robots to underwater exploration, ... Show More
30m 15s
Jul 2025
SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI
LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innov ... Show More
5m 18s
Jul 2025
D2DO278: The Future of HashiCorp Inside IBM
On today’s show, we talk to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp regarding HashiCorp’s future within IBM. We start with a quick recap of IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp and then move on to the challenges of bringing a small, young tech company into a huge corporation that ... Show More
40m 10s