Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form

Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly ended. The hardware startup closed 2016 by filing for insolvency, before being sold off to…

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DeepSeek’s new model shows that AI expertise might matter more than compute in 2025

Madrona partner Jon Turow. (Madrona Photo) Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Jon Turow’s Substack newsletter. The AI community is rightfully buzzing about the new model DeepSeek R1 and is racing to digest what it…

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