Top Startup and Tech Funding News – August 18, 2025
techstartups.com·15h
🚀Startups
Is collapsing fertility really the end of the world?
nature.com·21m
💰Money and Power
Catching Up on Ukraine and Trump’s Tax Credits
bloomberg.com·14h
🏛️Politics
Why Credit Card Defaults Are Surging – From Poor to Rich
procurefyi.substack.com·5h·
Discuss: Substack
🏦Federal Reserve
A.I. Travel Tools Are Everywhere. Are They Any Good?
nytimes.com·2h
🗺Unusual Destinations
Size matters, but so does beauty and vigour — at least when it comes to peacocks
theconversation.com·22h
🧩Types
Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter driven by pasture expansion, cropland expansion, and forest management
cell.com·4h
🍄Mycorrhizal Networks
flow-run: LLM Orchestration, Prompt Testing & Cost Monitoring
vitaliihonchar.com·4h·
Discuss: r/golang, r/programming
🪄Prompt Engineering
Growing SEO with Free Tools
timleland.com·14h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Indie Hacking
Google is killing the open web
wok.oblomov.eu·23h·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News, Hacker News
🌐Web Standards
Is Dfinity's Caffeine AI a wakeup call for application developers?
siliconangle.com·14h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Startups
Nature variations of <i>OsNLP4</i> responsible for nitrogen use efficiency divergence in the two rice subspecies
nature.com·19h
🍄Mycorrhizal Networks
"Who benefits from what this technology does?"
marius.ink·9h
⚖️Tech Regulation
The End of Big, Dumb AI Data
procurefyi.substack.com·5h·
Discuss: Substack
🆕New AI
The Dogs in Pursuit Problem
theguardian.com·19h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🌳Data Structures
Understanding how cells in small intestine of patients with celiac disease communicate with one another
medicalxpress.com·16h
⚗️Bread Chemistry
OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower
github.com·10h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🪄Prompt Engineering
Self-powered photodetector achieves 20-fold sensitivity boost using novel device structure
techxplore.com·15h
🔬Chip Fabrication
And What Could Be
writings.alethia.news·5h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🆕New AI
RNA editing tool can take some of the risk out of gene therapy
phys.org·14h
🔬Chip Fabrication