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Bill Gates' daughter secures $30M for an AI app she built in Stanford dorm room

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/phoebe-gates-stanford-ai-startup-phia-21231446.php
3•randycupertino•5h ago

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randycupertino•5h ago
> high-profile backers, drawing support from Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner, Meta’s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Spanx founder Sara Blakely.

Not your typical VCs!

wmf•5h ago
It's pretty common for startups to take small checks from celebrity investors. I couldn't find who's leading this round though.
1970-01-01•5h ago
>Its AI-powered search engine — available as an app and as a browser extension for Chrome and Safari — pulls listings from more than 40,000 retail and resale sites so users can compare prices, surface real-time deals, and determine whether an item’s cost is typical, high or fair.

So the AI part is superfluous? What part of the functionality requires AI?

inesranzo•5h ago
Does this really need AI?

Doesn't Google and others do this already?

Is this really a massive problem with humongous 1000x growth potential upside or an IPO?

I hope the VCs and Angels asked the serious questions and not invested because she is the daughter of the Microsoft founder.

I only wonder of the many 99.9999999% of startups were turned down by VCs of funding because "they don't know them", "they didn't go to the same school as me", "too much risk", or the infamous and vague "not now".

Alas, in this brave new world it is great to support our new underdogs.

DivingForGold•4h ago
https://archive.ph/ozeJO#selection-1085.0-1085.79

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/isw-polymarket-ukraine-war-map/
1•danso•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An ASCII table that doesn't hurt your eyes

https://asciify.dev/
1•dklepenko•4m ago•0 comments

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2•johntfella•4m ago•0 comments

Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-russia-ukraine-trump-pope-leo-60c898afe3241ff67552f417a06900b0
3•sipofwater•13m ago•2 comments

Discovery of Unstable Singularities (In 3D Navier-Stokes Équations)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14185
1•kelseyfrog•16m ago•0 comments

US Coinage 2026 [Semiquincentennial]

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1•explosion-s•21m ago•0 comments

Question about stability differences between GoLogin and AdsPower

1•muthiti•21m ago•0 comments

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2•sourcedocsai•26m ago•0 comments

Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?

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1•hn_acker•28m ago•0 comments

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1•hhs•29m ago•0 comments

LifeWiki | The Wiki for Conway's Game of Life

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1•frozenseven•36m ago•0 comments

The Nintendo Virtual Boy Is Now Available for Preorder

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2•not4uffin•39m ago•0 comments

By the Waters of Babylon (1937) by Stephen Vincent Benét [video]

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Why is manufacturing productivity growth so low?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34264
2•hhs•43m ago•0 comments

Oils 0.37.0 – Alpine Linux, YSH, and mycpp

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1•birdculture•44m ago•0 comments

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2•doener•46m ago•0 comments

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1•TheWiggles•46m ago•0 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

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23•simonw•50m ago•6 comments

Brain Crack (2006) [video]

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Turning my reading list into podcasts

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Why RSS Matters

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Arduino UNO Q

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The Biggest Causes of Medical Device Recalls

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2•sohkamyung•1h ago•0 comments

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1•madcash•1h ago•0 comments