Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Enduringly Quirky Portland, Oregon Is Better Than Ever | Condé Nast Traveler
From its food-cart scene to its role in pioneering farm-to-table eating, Portland has always been a food lover’s dream. A new wave of young talent is keeping diners on the edge of their seat. Here are the spots everyone is talking about.
The US Is Winning the AI Race
The decisive layer is cloud infrastructure and data. The US owns the global hyperscalers. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud give American firms the main channels through which models reach the world. It also owns platforms that generate and organize the data of the AI age. YouTube is a video corpus. Google Drive and Microsoft 365 sit inside daily office work. GitHub sits inside software development. These are distribution systems and data platforms. New models can be pushed into products people already use every day.
Most people don’t know what they don’t know, but think they do – correcting your metaknowledge can make you a better teacher and learner
If people are systematically overconfident about how well they understand things, why don’t they notice when they don’t understand something? And what can people do to better recognize the limits of their own knowledge?
Why Building with AI is Like Mowing Lawns — Chris Neumann
Right now, there is a massive opportunity for founders who are willing to simply knock on doors and metaphorically ask, “do you need your lawn cut?”
How AI changes software P&L | GPTomics
Because traditional software can reuse experiences across common behavior patterns and find multi-tenancy optimizations, for these companies the COGS per user decreases as adoption increases, allowing them to reach high margins compared to other industries. I expect that AI-based capabilities will break from this pattern.
What Is Code?
With modern LLMs we no longer need to type every word to produce code. Large amounts of executable code can now be generated from high-level descriptions. This forces a deeper question: If producing code becomes cheaper, what remains valuable about code?
40%-plus of Portland residents are considering moving. Here’s why. – oregonlive.com
Most of the respondents considering moving said they’re likely to leave Oregon, with 58% of respondents in the metro area and 49% in Portland saying they’d move to a different state.
Founders Live Portland · Luma
Founders Live Portland returns as part of Cursor Summer Cafe! We are excited to present our unforgettable networking experience and pitch competition within Cursor’s big event.
Community Broadband PDX Meetup » Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar
Come join Community Broadband PDX to talk about building a publicly owned broadband network here in Portland.
Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks | TechCrunch
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.
Oregon is making data centers pay more for the grid they need – Startup Fortune
According to Portland General Electric, the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved key elements of its plan on May 8, including a new customer class for large-load data centers, growth-based cost allocation, exit fees, minimum charges, and room for special contracts tied to clean energy development. The point is simple enough: if a data center forces the utility to expand the system, the data center should be tied more directly to the cost of that growth.
CytoDyn Announces First Patient Dosed in Expanded Access Program for Leronlimab in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer :: CytoDyn Inc. (CYDY)
CytoDyn Inc. (OTCQB: CYDY) (“CytoDyn” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage oncology company advancing leronlimab, a first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 receptor with therapeutic potential across multiple indications, including metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (“mTNBC”) and colorectal cancer (“mCRC”), today announced the successful enrollment and initial dosing of the first participant in its Expanded Access Program (EAP) for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
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