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News
- M.I.T. plans college for artificial intelligence, backed by $1bn (New York Times)
- Stride.VC plants £50m seed fund to grow UK startups (Elite Business)
- Entrepreneur First, the company builder backed by Greylock, lands in Bangalore (TechCrunch)
Opinion
- What I loved about Paul Allen (Bill Gates)
- The value of dyslexic thinking (Richard Branson)
- I’m joining Facebook to build bridges between politics and tech (Nick Clegg)
- The next chapter: Founders Factory Africa (Henry Lane Fox, co-founder and CEO, Founders Factory)
- A sceptic’s guide to thinking about AI (Katherine Schwab, associate editor, Fast Company)
Features
- Harvard Business Review: Investors punish entrepreneurs for typically feminine behaviours
- The Guardian: How to make it big in tech and still keep the demons at bay