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A startup using a new tech to make hydrogen extracts cash from Bill Gates’ climate tech fund

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Four years ago when Zach Jones went to do due diligence on C-Zero , a startup out of Santa Barbara, California commercializing a new approach to producing hydrogen, for the small family office he was working for, he had no idea he’d wind up as the company’s chief executive officer. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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As other recent technology waves have taught us, developments will simply come too fast for such an approach and will be driven by the speed of private industry. It is a very powerful technology, and while it is not inherently good or bad, given its sheer power, guardrails must be put into place. AI must be regulated.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. As the technology exhausts its honeymoon period, and companies in all industries find new ways of using it to get ahead of the competition, a new race is on.

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UniSieve’s filters use special crystals to reduce industrial emissions

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The energy-intensive process of separating and purifying chemicals and gases is a big reason why industries like plastic manufacturing cause so much pollution. The round, which UniSieve said was oversubscribed, included participation from the Amadeus Apex Technology Fund, Wingman Ventures, CIECH Ventures and Zürcher Kantonalbank.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

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Over the years, the event has become a relatively low-tech, low-budget showcase for a group of tech investors and billionaire industry insiders to take a look at early stage businesses that could be their next billion-dollar opportunity. Supplant’s technology uses enzymes to break down and fragment various fibers.

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Y Combinator’s biotech startups incubate a new generation of therapies and tools

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For instance, a DNA machine could lock onto COVID-19 viruses and then release a chemical signal indicating infection before killing the virus. Atom’s founders have published the details of their techniques in Nature Chemistry, and says it’s working on a COVID-19 test as well as therapies for the virus and other conditions.

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From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class

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“Our program is our diligence,” Bronson tells me. Free to Feed is developing test strips that identify different food proteins in breast milk, helping breastfeeding mothers better determine what proteins are leading to an allergic reaction. ” Here are the companies currently in each program, alphabetically: New York.

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