Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
I’m not the entrepreneurial sort… – CamiKaos
I’m a bad entrepreneur. It doesn’t even hurt my feelings to say so. Most people are. Most people don’t want to be an entrepreneur.
RIP Josh Baer | Feld Thoughts
Many people in the startup world knew Josh as the founder and CEO of Capital Factory, the center of gravity for entrepreneurship in Austin and, really, all of Texas. The local press is calling him the godfather of Austin’s startup scene. He earned this reputation, one founder at a time, for more than two decades.
Intel stock rises after Trump touts U.S.-built chip deal with Apple
Intel’s stock rose 7% on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the semiconductor company had agreed to a deal with Apple to design and build chips in the U.S.
Americans’ Views on AI Chatbots, Smart Devices and AI’s Impact | Pew Research Center
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults
Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server
I’ve long been interested in the possibilities for old phones that have outlived their ‘portable phone’ days. It might be because I remember when computers ran at 8 MHZ with 640 KB of RAM, and could do all sorts of fun things. These ‘old’ phones by comparison are hundreds of times more powerful than those old computers, and have all sorts of sensors and networking abilities built-in. Surely they can serve a need other than food for the recycler.
Escape from New York Pizza about to drop new T-shirt design
The new T-shirt design is intentionally backwards to give the viewer the impression that you’re looking through the pizzeria’s window from the inside of the restaurant. This is Greisser’s usual view of the restaurant sign while she works on the inside of the window.
The drawer problem: Why so many of us can’t let go of our old electronics, and what we can do about it
From our survey of 4,000 American consumers, we found the single most common thing people did with a device they were finished with was nothing at all: 39% simply stored it. Recycling and reselling, outcomes better for the environment, each accounted for only about 1 in 10 devices. Throwing devices in the trash claimed another 9%.
Oregon farms providing grass seed for the World Cup | Local | kezi.com
The grass seed supplier Barenbrug says World Cup regulations prevent them from identifying which specific stadiums are using Oregon-grown grass seed. However, they can confirm that grass seed produced in Oregon is being used in at least seven of the tournament’s 16 stadiums.
Introducing eve – Vercel
Today, we are proud to introduce eve, an open-source agent framework for building, running, and scaling agents. eve is designed around the idea that building an agent should mean defining what it does without assembling all of the pieces that it needs to run in production.
Replit is now available in Claude
Replit is now available directly inside Claude, making it easier than ever to go from a conversation to a fully built, shipped product – without losing context, in one seamless workflow.
AT&T Ventures’ Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility
In an email interview with Crunchbase News, Taneja shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier to building software, it has also shifted the definition of seed-stage technical risk. The new dynamics, in his view, gives AT&T Ventures an opportunity to differentiate itself by offering immediate, real-world technical validation and network integration rather than just capital.
Prosperity Council Likely to Streamline State’s Economic Development Agency — Oregon Journalism Project
When Gov. Tina Kotek’s Prosperity Council releases its final report in the last week of June, it’s almost certain the panel will recommend an overhaul of Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency. The reason isn’t hard to find.
Hillsboro council clash over data centers sparks calls for resignation: ‘All I did was hold up a mirror’ – oregonlive.com
A Hillsboro City Council meeting Tuesday erupted in chaos and prompted two members of the council to publicly call on another to resign as the suburban Washington County community remains engulfed in a public reckoning over the role of data centers and the tax incentives that attract them.
Unlocking The New Industrial Revolution
AI is an intelligence revolution. It is projected to achieve human-level intelligence and then surpass it. It should have the potential to significantly raise the standard of living, as past revolutions did.
You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.
You see, a document is supposed to be a service. The (implicit) deal is that the writer spends their time so the readers don’t have to. It’s why Pascal, in that quote at the top, was apologizing: the long letter is cheap for me and expensive for you, the short letter is expensive for me and cheap for you. At the workplace, I usually owe you the short one because there’s one of me and many of you. Compression, editing, and fact-checking are the work.
Portland Python June 2026
There will be a main talk between 30 minutes to 1 hour followed by optional lighting talks. Why I Chose Python for End-to-End Testing (And So Should You) by Ben Chatterton
OBI Startup Spotlight Expo » Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar
Join us for an engaging evening at OBI’s Annual Startup Spotlight Expo, where innovation meets connection. This signature event highlights the groundbreaking work of OBI’s resident startups across biotech, health, and life sciences, offering a firsthand look at the ideas and technologies shaping the future of the industry.
Seattle’s AI2 Incubator rebrands as AI House, and adds key investor as managing director – GeekWire
Along with the rebrand, AI House is bringing on Sri Chandrasekar as a new managing director. Chandrasekar spent nearly a decade at Point72 Ventures, where he helped build the firm’s ventures and private equity businesses, and previously led investments at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community.
Oregon’s AI Infrastructure Moment: Will We Lead or Watch?
While Oregon is not adding anywhere near as many new data center projects as leading states such as Texas and Virginia, it has seen significant growth in the past due to its energy infrastructure (especially clean energy), progressive utilities, workforce, and incentives.
Frontier No More?
All taken together, it reveals that the dominance of one or two frontier models is waning. And we are hearing this theme reverberate across the entire category on five dimensions