Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Exclusive | Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Under Attack From Trump, Is Already at Odds With His Board – WSJ
Tan and some Intel directors have disagreed in his first months in the role about questions as central as whether the company should stay in the manufacturing business or exit it entirely, according to people familiar with the matter. Recent efforts by Tan to raise new capital and acquire an artificial-intelligence company have been stalled by people on the board, they said.
August’s Featured Events
There are over 60 events on the calendar right now. Including 30 this month.
Mastering the circular economy and AI to stay competitive | World Economic Forum
By 2030, the competitiveness of manufacturers and global businesses will be measured by more than just product quality, pricing or speed. Instead, it will be determined by how intelligently and sustainably they operate. Two forces — the shift to circular economy business models and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI ) — are reshaping the foundations of industrial success.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here | TechCrunch
GPT-5, which was released Thursday, is OpenAI’s first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series. The next-generation model signals a new era for ChatGPT — and its creator, OpenAI — pointing to OpenAI’s broader ambitions to develop AI systems that are more like agents than chatbots.
Startup’s plan to ditch Seattle for Bay Area sparks reaction about tech culture, work pace, AI and more – GeekWire
A drizzly, cool, grey morning in August feels like the perfect time to recognize that Seattle is not for everyone. Announcing that your tech startup is packing up for the Bay Area might be another way to throw a wet blanket over the Emerald City.
When AI Doesn’t Understand You: A New Form of Global Inequality
Artificial intelligence doesn’t need to surveil or censor to cause harm. Sometimes, it only needs to forget you exist — not out of malice, but because it never included you to begin with.
Oregon small businesses grapple with loss of federal aid for minority-owned startups – oregonlive.com
The loss of funds for the nation’s only agency solely serving the growth of minority-owned businesses is one of many to fall under the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that President Donald Trump had ordered removed from the government earlier this year.
Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete | a16z Podcast
In this episode, Marc Andreessen joins TBPN for an unfiltered conversation spanning everything from ads in LLMs to why Apple’s AI strategy may be risky for anyone not named Apple.
Vibe Check: Genie 3, Claude 4.1, GPT-oss, and GPT-5
In a 24-hour span on Tuesday, the big labs released Genie 3, a text-to-world simulator from Google DeepMind that you can actually walk around in (once it’s out of research preview, anyway); Claude Opus 4.1, Anthropic’s incremental (but important) coding upgrade; and gpt-oss-120b and 20b, OpenAI’s first open-weight models since GPT-2 back in 2019.
Why Your AI Never Works on the First Try
This is the universal experience of AI power users. That peculiar exhaustion of grinding through iterations, knowing you’re making progress but unable to see the destination. Like being stuck on the same level of a video game, except the level changes slightly each time you play it.
In praise of quitting – by Cate Hall – Useful Fictions
It’s not an easy task, because research suggests that merely being aware of loss aversion doesn’t significantly reduce its influence on behavior. So you can expect strategic quitting to be difficult. However, making yourself painfully aware of your choices is often the first step in changing them.
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