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WTH THIS IS HORRIFYING
Police punch Hispanic man already pinned to ground—22 times.
Officer had already shot him with taser.
"He stiffly hit the ground after being tased, and his head banged on asphalt," said witness.
"Cop mounts him and starts beating—later 3 more piled on."
Just because man was standing in the road blocking some traffic.
Witnesses say he looked like he was having a mental episode—and was not trying to harm anyone.
Emergency crews were called and took the man to the hospital.
Local police confirmed the incident occurred at 3:15 pm—but released no other details except to say it was "under review."
Incident occurred on Auburn Way near 37th Street NE in Auburn, Washington.
WHat would Steve Jobs say as the newest MacBook Pro features a PROLED XDR display — which @Apple claims is the “world’s best laptop display” along with touchscreen capabilities and a Dynamic Island multi-function hub for frequently used tools. (Steve denied the touchscreen idea)
Under the hood, the M5 Pro/Max chip powers on-device AI abilities while offering up to 24 hours of battery life. Pre-orders are open now. Shipping starts Nov. 6th. See how it stacks up against Apple’s standard MacBook Pro. @AppleNews @appleinsider
Crunchbase data shows Series B funding is concentrating hard: about $48B has gone into Series B rounds this year even as the number of rounds hits a multi-year low, with roughly two-thirds of the money going to AI startups — Bezos-backed Prometheus's $12B round leads the pack.
Liftoff: when people ask me what matters for founders, I say storytelling and distribution.
Commonplace's edge is 3,000 vetted drivers run by 15 employees.
Kami Vision is taking fall detection into elder care through partners.
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Liftoff of the Week: 3 co's that skipped the default.
Commonplace calls itself logistics, not a marketplace.
CTRL ENERGY bootstrapped after VCs passed on repairable batteries. Kami Vision sells through partners, not direct. liftoffwithkeith.com/
Liftoff: Elon expects "a lot of stranded compute." A neolab says GPU rents are up 2-3x so they'll just resell.
At NeoCloud I sat down with Carmen Li, building the price layer (Silicon Data) and the market (Compute Exchange).
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Liftoff with Ari Kimmelfeld, founder of Commonplace: he calls it a logistics company, not a marketplace. 3,000 vetted drivers move bulky secondhand items nationwide, and the whole thing runs on 15 full time employees. liftoffwithkeith.com/
Liftoff with Carmen Li, CEO of Silicon Data and Compute Exchange: Musk expects stranded compute. A neolab says H100/B200/B300 rentals are up 2-3x, so it just resells. Carmen is building the exchange that prices it. Coming soon to Liftoff. Subscribe free: keithnewman.substack.com/sub…
One the VC front @general_compute raised a $100M SeriesA at $800M valuation betting on non-Nvidia inference chip as skepticism peaks around neoclouds. Oct. filings show fresh war chests @ ex-Benchmark partners fund Diffusion ONE at $1B and Trust Ventures filed for a $400M Fund V.
Yea its intereseting to see the background or thesis of new funds that are popping up! Dallas Disruptive closed a $10B fund one of the year's biggest for $1B checks into 10 late-stage AI and defense companies; its earlier deal-by-deal bets returned $6B on $1.9B invested.
Chip stocks (Broadcom, Nvidia, AMD, Micron) extended their Anthropic-filing rally into a second day, with SK Hynix's blockbuster earnings adding fresh fuel to the AI trade across Asian markets.
Masters of Scale: @Microsoft and @Alphabet both report Q3 earnings and the real test of whether massive AI capex ($175B Microsoft, $1205B Alphabet in 2026) is translating into cloud revenue Wall Street will reward. @GoogleStartups @fundthisfounder @startupindia @msft4startups
Netflix hired former Apple Podcasts executive Steve Wilson to lead podcast content acquisition, sharpening its push into the category as YouTube reportedly offers creators large sums to stay put — podcasts are still a small slice of Netflix's $20B content budget.
First-time financings are hitting a record pace: an estimated 8,625 US startups closed their first-ever venture round through Q3, already beating 2021's full-year record with a quarter still to go, per PitchBook data cited by SaaStr.
Funny papers: What will we say in 10 years? @AnthropicAI filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO (ticker "ANT") reporting $16.3B in first-half revenue (up from $1.2B a year ago) against an $80.7B net loss and a valuation around $2T, which would make it one of the largest listings ever!
Liftoff with Mike Link, COO of Kami Vision. Computer vision built for home security is moving into elder care, starting with fall detection. We got into privacy, earning enterprise trust, and why Kami sells through partners. liftoffwithkeith.com/