✍️ **Not Boring #203: Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B, AI Cracks a 90-Year-Old Math Problem**

This week's Weekly Dose of Optimism covers a big week for tech:
• Travis Kalanick's Atoms (formerly CloudKitchens) raised **$1.7B** led by a16z, with Ben Horowitz joining the board — merging food, mining, and robotics into one physical-industry conglomerate.
• Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 helped disprove the **90-year-old** Jacobian conjecture in algebraic geometry, part of a wave of AI-assisted math breakthroughs.
• India's Skyroot became just the fourth country whose private sector reached orbit, launching Vikram-1 to a **450km** orbit.
• The White House released a _"Science: A New Golden Age"_ blueprint to overhaul **$200B** in annual federal R&D funding.
• Anduril and Archer unveiled Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fly ahead of human pilots.

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