Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Put Claude to work on your computer | Claude
In Claude Cowork and Claude Code, Claude can use your computer to point, click, and complete tasks. Dispatch lets you assign them from your phone.
Transcript for Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494 – Lex Fridman
You know, the goal of a comp- of a company is to be the machinery, the mechanism, the system that produces the output. And that output is the product that we like to create. It is also designed, the architecture of the company should reflect the environment by which it exists.
Autoresearch on an old research idea | Blog | Yogesh Kumar
Ever since it showed up on my GH feed, Karpathy’s Autoresearch was rattling around in the back of my mind. I wanted to try it on a research problem I fully understood. So this weekend, I picked up my old research code from eCLIP , dusted it off the legacy dependencies and gave it to Claude Code. And just let it cook while I did some chores around the house.
Drones paired with AI could help search-and-rescue teams find missing persons faster
A combination of infrared imaging, thermal imaging and color cameras on an uncrewed drone, along with an AI system to interpret the data, can help emergency responders and search-and-rescue teams locate, identify and track people who have gone missing in the wilderness.
Humanoid Tote-Handling Robots : Digit at Toyota
For manufacturers facing large numbers of vacancies and an aging workforce, Digit offers a way to fill repetitive roles while preserving current plant footprints, speeding integration compared with bespoke machinery. The rollout underscores a trend toward humanoid robots as practical labor supplements rather than purely demonstrative tech stunts.
US Startup Funding Slows Sharply In March
American companies raised just around $13 billion in seed- through later- and growth-stage funding so far this month, per Crunchbase data. Unless momentum suddenly picks up, that puts March on track to deliver just a fraction of investment tallies from either of the prior two months, as charted below.
Markdown ate the world
When word processors were just proxies for typewriters, this made a lot of sense. But as Microsoft Word took off in popularity and quickly established itself as the dominant word processor, we saw the rise of the .doc file format. This was an exponential increase in complexity from what came before, which made sense because suddenly word processors were becoming “everything tools” — not just typing, but layout, images, revision tracking, embedded objects, and whatever else Microsoft could cram in there.
Guideline’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Early Decisions That Powered Its Acquisition by Gusto
Ten years after shaking up the retirement fund industry for SMBs, Guideline has been acquired by Gusto. Here, co-founder Kevin Busque shares the early-stage decisions and pivots that put the startup on the path to success.
PDX Code & Coffee @ DeadStock Beaverton, Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup
Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. Drink some coffee, bring your laptop, and have engaging conversations. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work tasks.
Builders Meet Advisors, Thu, Apr 2, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup
The kind of room where one conversation can save you months or unlock your next move. Not networking. A curated, facilitated room for builders and advisors solving real problems. Working on something ambitious? Want to learn from people who’ve already solved the problems you’re facing? You’re not alone, but most rooms don’t help. This one does.
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