✍️ 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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