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Identifying a Startup-Worthy Idea

Identifying a Startup-Worthy Idea Compelling founders, observes Sequoia Capital partner Alfred Lin, are often distinguished by their unique obsession with a …

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BillionToOne Goes Public — The Startup That Made Genetic Testing Universal

Today, BillionToOne goes public, becoming YC’s fourth publicly traded biotech company. More importantly, they have built one of the most important genetic tests in the U.S. Today, 1 in 11 babies born in the US are tested with BillionToOne’s fetal genetic test. When we met Oguzhan and David, they were still PhD students. Oguzhan was […]

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AI maps global methane emissions from space

In a new study published in PNAS, Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) introduced MAPL-EMIT, an AI model that tracks methane emissions globally from space using NASA’s EMIT instrument. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Over a 100-year timeframe, its warming potential is 30 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. MAPL-EMIT tackles a […]

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Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in October to give AI enthusiasts, developers and creators […]

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