Sunday, September 13, 2026
Startups
MVP Development on a Founder Budget: What to Cut and What to Keep
A founder I know spent $31,000 before a single real user touched his product. Not on the core workflow. On...
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Every playful AI picture carries a hidden price — making just one image can use about as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, one study found
As MIT Technology Review put it, “generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully...
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Bond Vet and Small Door Merge to Form One of the Nation’s Largest Premium Veterinary Networks – AlleyWatch
Bond Vet and Small Door Veterinary, two New York-founded providers of premium pet care, have finalized a merger that creates...
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General Intuition just raised $320M on a thesis that sounds absurd — that video game data, not real robot telemetry, will produce the GPT of embodied AI
General Intuition, a startup building what it describes as a foundation model for embodied AI, has raised $320 million at...
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Stepful Raises $55M to Break Healthcare’s $97B Dependence on Contract Staffing – AlleyWatch
America’s healthcare labor shortage has hardened into a structural crisis: health systems now spend $97B annually on contract and agency...
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You blame Visa and Mastercard for the swipe fee, but they keep almost none of it — the fat cut, called interchange, flows straight to the bank that issued your card, and it barely exists in the countries that built their own payment rails
When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee,...
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Psychology says people who struggle in classrooms but excel at reading a room, fixing an engine, or sensing what someone needs aren’t slow learners, they’re often operating in a form of intelligence the traditional school system was never designed to measure
There’s a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up...
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Bristlecone pines growing in the White Mountains of California germinated before the Great Pyramid was built, and the oldest one alive today, nicknamed Methuselah, has been quietly adding rings for 4,855 years in soil so poor almost nothing else survives beside it
A single Great Basin bristlecone pine growing in the White Mountains of eastern California has been alive for 4,855 years....
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The Company We Wish Existed
People often ask me what motivated me to build York IE. The answer is pretty simple: I lived the startup...
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Rylo Raises $85M to Give 48M Americans with Hearing Loss Private, Independent Communication – AlleyWatch
For the 48 million Americans living with hearing loss, a phone call has never been a private act: for decades,...
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