The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say

Start Up No.2629: life as an accidental sports gambler, love my typos!, AI agents run riot, why clean energy beats drilling, and more

Start Up No.2628: the junior developer pipeline problem, oil prices high until 2027?, forgetting Google, America’s problem, and more

Start Up No.2627: the phantoms of British AI “investment”, Bluesky CEO steps aside, Claude LLM finds Firefox bugs, and more

Start Up No.2626: phishing gets even tougher to spot, New York salaries, don’t fret about AI jobs, the metaverse just won’t die, and more

Start Up No.2625: Meta sued over smart glass privacy, a new Apple?, the bad agent, Grammarly fakes writer identities, and more

Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more

Start Up No.2623: DRAM bots snoop for memory bargains, AP journalists face AI future, genome model figures genetics, and more

Start Up No.2622: US’s iPhone hacking tool stolen, reporter fired over AI-fabricated quotes, the ‘MacBook Neo’?, and more

Start Up No.2621: Anthropic’s doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT’s bad health, 25 years after the iPod, and more

Start Up No.2620: AI v the Pentagon, prediction markets get edgy on Iran, Nasa’s solar mixup, when Apple’s lights breathed, and more

Start Up No.2619: Instagram finally thinks of warning parents, Claude Code for the rest of us, Burger King’s chatbot pawns, and more

Start Up No.2618: Anthropic wonders if Claude is.. conscious?, winning bets against DOGE, the trouble with flying, the AI race, and more

Start Up No.2617: Chinese robovac’s dire security, Reddit and Discord hit age verification bump, AI bubble trouble, and more

Start Up No.2616: a girl’s view of online misogyny, Wikipedia zaps archive.today links, Donut Labs battery looks good, and more

Start Up No.2615: AI bot zaps Amazon service, OpenAI hid shooter’s violent discussion, is ET there?, the “Fitbit for farts”, and more

Start Up No.2614: Pinterest drowns in the AI slop tide, a single vaccine?, OpenAI’s competition problem, and more

Start Up No.2614: sorry, not possible today.

Start Up No.2613: AI jobs forecasts are everywhere, Microsoft’s glass storage plan, the Chinese fear of dying alone, and more

Start Up No.2612: Sony mulls PS6 delay over RAM pricing, Meta research on social media revealed, your shoulder’s fine!, and more

Start Up No.2611: did an AI agent write a hit piece?, check your benefits!, fears of an AI future, the lost sun, and more

Start Up No.2610: Ukraine’s war lesson, London catches measles, an RNA starter?, Meta looks for faces, Ring dumps Flock, and more

Start Up No.2609: climate change’s mysterious acceleration, China’s CO2 emissions fall, another AI video maker goes viral, and more

Start Up No.2608: Google’s undeleted security video, solar farms keep growing, the lies about Courtsdesk, it’s copper!, and more

Start Up No.2607: how AI changes work, China’s car are ready to go, Trump blocks EV chargers (again), Gemini grows, and more

Start Up No.2606: can (should) AI write romance novels?, AI ads perplex Superbowl, charger companies seek buyers, and more

Start Up No.2605: AI deepfake fraud growing fast, are space GPUs possible?, how to think like a worm, Moltbook?, and more

Start Up No.2604: AI helps cancer diagnosis, CIA kills World Factbook, Waymo’s school bus problem, OpenAI fumes, and more

Start Up No.2603: Anthropic ad snipes at OpenAI ads, Nvidia’s vanishing $100bn, lithium mining in.. Cornwall?, and more

Start Up No.2602: Anthropic’s legal tool hits data shares, Moltbook and the worms, Google AI overviews hit news ad views, and more

Start Up No.2601: how Musk turned Grok into a porn chatbot, Moltbook exposed, global warming hits US and UK weather, and more

Start Up No.2600: AI truth in architectural renders, Chinese EV envy, the trouble with software, hacking Poland, and more

Start Up No.2599: UK government’s useless AI Skills Hub, Amazon chops jobs, Apple buys AI audio firm, cell time, and more

Start Up No.2598: Meta faces addiction trial, the new agentic AI risk, iPhone Air’s pricey failure, Tim Cook’s lost compass, and more

Start Up No.2597: how Anthropic got its book haul, what sort of AI bubble is this?, China’s biotech advances, and more

Start Up No.2596: how the cloud is replacing Windows, TikTok’s new owner struggles, B-road badger bother, sport camera!, and more

Start Up No.2595: coding with Claude, Google’s unhealthy AI Overview, can we regrow cartilage?, how Vimeo died, and more

Start Up No.2594: how social media algorithms box you in, AI’s deadening uncreativity, Grok’s huge legacy of abuse images, and more

Start Up No.2593: the trouble with WhatsApp diplomacy, BBC’s YouTube deal, Trump’s science wreckage, and more

Start Up No.2592: is semaglutide hitting fast food?, a Bic pen lamp, vaping risk paper pulled, the danger of US bans, and more

Start Up No.2591: how good products turn bad, Asus exits.. smartphones?, Threads overtakes X, bad NFT predictions, and more

Start Up No.2590: the trouble with mining Greenland, RAM price hikes hit SSDs too, WhatsApps aren’t contracts, and more

Start Up No.2589: WhatsApp’s global reach, Grok cleans up (perhaps), US magazines sue Google over adtech, bike life, and more

Start Up No.2588: police confess to AI blunder, how the Underground is getting mobile coverage, Digg relaunches (again), and more

Start Up No.2587: Grok’s evil AI image generator, Instagram’s libellous AI influencers, Meta shuts VR studios, and more

Start Up No.2586: the idiot torturers, Taiwan’s ecosystem loss for AI, failing to grasp Tahoe, Iran’s fake social media Scots, and more

Start Up No.2585: Is Iran jamming Starlink (and how?), CES’s worst gadgets, China’s desert blooms, Norway goes EV mad, and more

Start Up No.2584: New York’s phone ban revives high school fun, the dangerous Wall-E future, Facebook charging for links?, and more

Start Up No.2583: Oracle’s $10bn data centre stalls, Korea frets over camera hacking, why Ford retreated from EVs, and more

Start Up No.2582: Facebook’s huge Chinese scam advert revenue, Windows 11 and the invisible sign-in, and more

Start Up No.2581: the US’s “post-news” era, fake citations found in AI ethics guide, ideas for 2026, Roomba maker goes bankrupt, and more

Start Up No.2580: Ukrainians sue US chip firms over Russian drones, the pricey robot chef, dopers are beating the testers, and more

Start Up No.2579: South Korea’s population collapse (and Switzerland too?), Disney chums up with OpenAI (not Google), and more

Start Up No.2578: Instacart’s dynamic pricing squeeze, the cancer-causing sperm donor, Google search remedies finalised, and more

Start Up No.2577: Australia’s child social media ban starts, a fentanyl vaccine?, misdiagnosed by LLM, the RAM wars start, and more

Start Up No.2576: Apple’s Srouji to stay!, Google does XR glasses (again), ICEBlock creator sues US government, and more

Start Up No.2575: anatomy of a scam call, Middle East climate risks, Apple execs get restive, bar code price lies, and more

Start Up No.2574: chatbots as political persuaders, 3D-printed part crashes small plane, Alan Dye redux, AI browsing?, and more

Start Up No.2573: Trump warms to geothermal, Apple swaps out head of AI (and design), the world of digital guitar amps, and more

Start Up No.2572: OpenAI calls “code red” over Google Gemini, UK mulls ban on political crypto, ragebait advertising, and more

Start Up No.2571: your smartphone as a house, is language thinking?, Airbus’s A320 problem, hackers (mostly) grow out of it, and more

Start Up No.2570: three years of ChatGPT, who’s hacking Apple’s Podcasts app?, the AI music conundrum, LinkedIn bros, and more

Start Up No.2569: China gears up with AI and robots, Warners partners with Suno, the end of cervical cancer?, and more

Start Up No.2568: TSMC sues Intel executive, OpenAI blames teen for suicide, EV owners face per-mile tax, VaticanOS, and more

Start Up No.2567: memory prices rocket as AI boom eats supply, US students and TikTok news, why and how states began, and more

Start Up No.2566: don’t mix AI and children, Mumbai’s data centre problem, the myth of penicillin’s discovery, and more

Start Up No.2565: Meta accused of burying harm data, double trouble with passwords, a dim future for the Sun?, inflatable ISS!, and more

Start Up No.2564: Windows struggles with its AI future, the judge banned from using US firms, AirDrop to.. Android?, and more

Start Up No.2563: America’s descent towards idiocracy, Dutch government gives Nexperia back to China, Samsung??, and more

Start Up No.2562: Cloudflare collapses chunks of the internet, Google CEO warns of bubble risk, Meta wins antitrust trial, and more

Start Up No.2561: UK hacker must repay £4m after celebrity Twitter hacks, fixing Britain, is the Mac Pro over?, bird flu back, and more

Start Up No.2560: the web’s continual refusal to die, Anthropic’s hacking claim queried, bad AI toys!, 300 billion 1c problems, and more

Start Up No.2559: UK retailer foresees big AI job cuts, stock market defeats ‘Big Short’ fund, lupus virus identified, and more

Start Up No.2558: iPhone Air faces its biggest test, Flock’s cameras are public, China’s EV market on the edge, and more

Start Up No.2557: AI’s odd struggle to sound toxic, US children’s bad education, why less AI means a faster phone, and more

Start Up No.2556: after the AI bubble, Nvidia tiptoes into quantum, Apple says no ads on TV, AI to sort prison releases?, and more

Start Up No.2555: when Steve Jobs mulled adverts in macOS, is Musk’s $1 trillion real?, FBI subpoenas mystery archive site, and more

Start Up No.2554: Meta earned about $16bn on scam ads in 2024, the no-follower world, Brazil’s emissions (and fires) drop, and more

Start Up No.2553: the age of anti-social media begins, Internet Archive’s next steps, TurboTax gets free rival killed, and more

Start Up No.2552: Apple plans cheap laptop, life delivering parcels, crooked ransomware negotiators, uranium v RAM, and more

Start Up No.2551: Tesla sued over door handle fire deaths, Ukraine’s drone incentive, 23 hours of Drake a day?, and more

Start Up No.2550: how the US AI bubble could deflate, AI musicians chart, media’s lost trust, phone thieves and flowerbeds, and more

Start Up No.2549: Israel’s peculiar cloud contract, a $1trn OpenAI float?, chimps can change their minds, and more

Start Up No.2548: Nvidia value leaps on potential China deal, the podcast life, EU carmakers face chip stop, and more

Start Up No.2547: 1X launches “humanoid robot” for the home, Nvidia invests in.. Nokia?, wind saved UK £104bn, and more

Start Up No.2546: Grokipedia launches (and crashes), immersive soccer for Apple?, AI coffee shops, Nike’s exoskeleton shoe, and more

Start Up No.2545: Myanmar Army shuts scam centre, Sora’s fetish problem, lithium’s mining crash, Apple’s £1.5 bn fine, and more

Start Up No.2544: the real North Korean lifestyle, the Filipinos controlling Japan’s robots, how we sleep, hearing the heart, and more

Start Up No.2543: BBC study finds AI news summary flaws, Amazon’s wish for robot workers, the ‘zero crime’ Ring?, and more

Start Up No.2542: OpenAI launches its chat browser, Europol dismantles SIM farm network, Meta beats NSO in court, and more

Start Up No.2541: AWS’s Achilles heel, eye implants show promise, using Meta’s smart glasses, mRNA slows cancer, and more

Start Up No.2540: Apple buys US Formula 1 rights, everything’s pivoting to video, psychology’s failed experiments, and more

Start Up No.2539: US’s growth divergence, Cloudflare fights Google AI, news slop worsens, barrister uses fake AI ‘cases’, and more

Start Up No.2538: the scary future of AI-driven scams, when the interview hacks you, Ofcom fines 4chan, and more

Start Up No.2537: Google Pixel Fold burns up rig test, Windows 10 lives on, how to prompt Sora 2, Tories v Brexit, and more

Start Up No.2536: Apple drops Home Office lawsuit, climate passes a tipping point, Russia’s AI TV satire, it’s Apple TV!, and more

Start Up No.2535: Australia’s school smartphone ban two years later, ruining Amazon, the Chinese electrostate, Windows AI, and more

Start Up No.2534: Amazon’s advertising compulsion, LLMs as forecasters, the US pedestrian death mystery, and more

Start Up No.2533: Apple bans ICE video archive app, Bank warns of AI bubble, EU drops chat surveillance demand, and more

Start Up No.2532: Denmark plans under-15 social media ban, Ted Cruz v Wikipedia, Sora 2 flood begins, ICEBlock redux, and more

Start Up No.2531: the AI news theft sites, a cognitive periodic table?, Apple melts on ICE, Korea’s lost backup, and more

Start Up No.2530: chatbots’ illusory tourism, turn on Chrome’s built-in LLM, Musk fans keep getting crypto scammed, and more

Start Up No.2529: chatbot childminders, hackers make Asahi run dry, the smart glasses race, Meta faces $8bn privacy fine, and more

Start Up No.2528: UK spies demands iCloud backdoor again, Sora 2 launches controversy, Afghansistan back online, and more

Start Up No.2527: Imgur geoblocks UK over Online Safety Act, Afghanistan cuts internet, AI actress gets backlash, and more

Start Up No.2526: Electronic Arts bought out for $52.5bn, ChatGPT will be a sales channel, would you eat tempeh?, and more

Start Up No.2525: why and how the rich want to be immortal, a drunk Waymo?, JLR gets £1.5bn lifeline, the free TV that isn’t, and more

Start Up No.2524: Instagram criticised over teen safety features, the AI radiology boom, Amazon settles Prime lawsuit, and more

Start Up No.2523: gene therapy used for Huntington cure, the newsletter life, why Iranian etiquette defeats LLMs, and more

Start Up No.2522: EU might end cookie popups, the SIM farm spam plague, Ukraine’s AI-powered drones, and more

Start Up No.2521: why great companies fall, DOJ seeks Google adtech breakup, Nvidia to pump $100bn into OpenAI, and more

Start Up No.2520: trying Meta’s smart glasses, trouble with smart TVs, Trump’s H1B visa shakedown, fixing Africa’s cables, and more