Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.
Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit | Tom’s Hardware
In an unexpected turn of events, Kevin O’Buckley, the head of Intel Foundry, decided to jump ship for Qualcomm after just two years at the company. From now on, Intel Foundry will be headed by Naga Chandrasekaran, who was previously in charge of front-end process technology development and manufacturing.
Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement – by Sachin
The Maker Movement was the spiritual predecessor to vibe coding. The parallels are hard to miss. Vibe coding has slop. The Maker Movement had crapjects, a term the community coined for 3D-printed objects that served no purpose beyond proving you could extrude plastic into a shape.
Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Still Flying High
More than two dozen companies in the sector have raised rounds of $100 million or more in the past year, per Crunchbase data.
Some Members of Kotek’s Prosperity Council Unhappy About Tax Change
“The only way to get out of the economic doom loop we are facing is by people coming and opening more businesses that pay good wages and paying their fair share of taxes,” Schnitzer says he told Kotek. “This bill creates a disincentive for businesses to invest in this wonderful state. Why would we do that?”
Oregon Secretary of State Read ‘deeply concerned’ about election conspiracies after FBI call • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Wednesday call with election officials featured a prominent election conspiracist urging states to add voter data to a national database
I Thought I Understood A.I. Companies. I Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong. – The New York Times
There are no lazy monopolists in the A.I. space coasting on past advantages. Over the past year, the top spot on the Arena leaderboard has moved among those three companies, with strong performances from newer arrivals such as the Chinese company DeepSeek and the French firm Mistral — many of which require far less capital than earlier generations of A.I. companies.
A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source’s funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch
A group of notable open source programmers are joining with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called the Open Source Endowment in hopes of permanently solving the perennial issue with developing open source software: funding.
ProductTank March 2026, Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
We’re excited to welcome two incredible speakers: Betsie Hoyt (Fractional Product Management VP) and Jed Gresham (Head of Product @ Moment). As always, we’ll also have plenty of time to meet other product folks over drinks and tasty snacks. Sponsored by Oregon Venture Fund.
Startup Corvallis (Food/drink/networking get together), Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Startup Corvallis is all about meeting new and known innovators, talking about our projects, what we need, and what’s new from the universities, OSU/UO/PSU to the cities (PDX to EUG) and the many connected organizations that are part of our ecosystem.
Oregon counties want help administering data centers’ growing tax breaks – oregonlive.com
Businesses receive hundreds of millions of dollars in Oregon property tax breaks every year through incentives authorized by the state but awarded by local governments. The cost of administering the tax breaks is rising, mostly because of the complexity associated with county assessors valuing one industry — data centers — and managing those incentives.
Cable TV was born in this Oregon coast town
In 1948 – four years before Portland got its first TV station – Astoria residents were already watching broadcast television, thanks to Leroy Edward “Ed” Parsons. Using a system of antennas, coaxial cable, repeaters and signal boosters, he captured broadcasts from Seattle — some 125 miles away, as the crow flies.
AI Startup Building: First Principles Still Work, the SaaS Playbook Doesn’t
The first principles haven’t changed: solve a real problem, deliver more value than you capture, build something defensible, find repeatable demand. But the rules of thumb that became axiomatic during the SaaS era are now actively misleading in many cases, and the hard part is that they still feel right.
PDX AI Demo Night · Luma
The goal of this event is to showcase the AI products coming from the founder and engineering community through lightning demos and Q&A.
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