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David Mandel "Super Angel investor” Blog @MandelAngel
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The case for venture investing, specifically in the Late-Seed stage davidmandel.blog/blog/the-ca…

David Mandel Blog - The case for venture investing, specifically in the Late-Seed stage

The pre-seed investor is taking a significantly higher risk without any significant reward. In careful review and analysis of both my angel portfolio and the fund’s portfolio, I developed a clear...

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end davidmandel.blog/trending/qu…

David Mandel Blog - Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it...

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively...

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Venture Capital Is Recovering—But the Liquidity Problem Remains davidmandel.blog/blog/ventur…

David Mandel Blog - Venture Capital Is Recovering—But the Liquidity Problem Remains

The venture capital industry entered 2026 with renewed optimism. After several years of valuation resets, markdowns, and fundraising headwinds, new data suggests that venture fund performance is...

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Does Your AI Agent Need a Kill Switch? davidmandel.blog/trending/do…

David Mandel Blog - Does Your AI Agent Need a Kill Switch?

AI agents pose severe risks to enterprise systems because common security guardrails are probabilistic guessing systems that fail against prompt injections, memory poisoning and hallucinations. True...

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OpenAI is considering slashing token prices before Anthropic beats it to the punch, teeing up a pre-IPO price war as customers grow more wary of AI’s high costs. techbrew.com/stories/openai-… via @MorningBrew

How low can tokens go?

OpenAI is considering slashing token prices before Anthropic beats it to the punch, teeing up a pre-IPO price war as customers grow more wary of AI’s high costs.

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Visa and OpenAI form agentic commerce partnership finextra.com/newsarticle/479… via @Finextra

Visa and OpenAI form agentic commerce partnership

Visa has formed a partnership with OpenAI to let agents make payments across the AI giant's platform.

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Excited to be back at USC to attend the Techstars/ USC demo day and meet some amazing startup founders
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Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip with 1,000x better qubit stability and a faster path to scalable computing. davidmandel.blog/trending/mi…

David Mandel Blog - Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip with 1,000x better qubit stability...

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, its next-generation quantum chip, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability and a faster path toward a commercially useful quantum computer. The...

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Attending @FoundersBoost demo day pitch event
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The internet is being rebuilt for machines davidmandel.blog/trending/th…

David Mandel Blog - The internet is being rebuilt for machines

Cloud infrastructure has long been designed around humans who search, click, scroll, and stream in a steady and predictable fashion. AI agents behave differently. They can unleash a swell of activi...

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My new blog post: AI Startups are plagued by Fake ARR davidmandel.blog/blog/ai-sta…

David Mandel Blog - AI Startups are plagued by Fake ARR

If you’ve been following the AI startup scene lately, you might have noticed a wave of headlines boasting jaw-dropping revenue numbers. But are these numbers the real deal? Or are we witnessing the...

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As "Q-day" looms ever closer, possibly making traditional passwords obsolete, Boimetrics becomes a critical security protocol. davidmandel.blog/trending/as…

David Mandel Blog - As "Q-day" looms ever closer, possibly making traditional passwords obsolete,...

New earphone design verifies users by their heartbeat, simplifying authentication. The use of biometric data in personal devices has been popular with consumers for tracking things like heart rate...

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Technology usually creates jobs for young, skilled workers. Will AI do the same? davidmandel.blog/trending/te…

David Mandel Blog - Technology usually creates jobs for young, skilled workers. Will AI do the same?

At any given time, technology does two things to employment: It replaces traditional jobs, and it creates new lines of work. Machines replace farmers, but enable, say, aeronautical engineers to...

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NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/na… via @techcrunch

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead | TechCrunch

NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running directly on a...

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Japan: World-first fully automated medicine lab with humanoids, robots, and no humans interestingengineering.com/a…

Japan: World first fully automated medicine lab with humanoids, robots and no humans

A Japanese lab deploys humanoid robots and AI to automate medical experiments with no human staff on site.

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The AI Boom Is Creating a Trust Crisis — And Startups Are Completely Underprepared davidmandel.blog/trending/th…

David Mandel Blog - The AI Boom Is Creating a Trust Crisis — And Startups Are Completely Underpre...

The current AI boom has created one of the fastest product acceleration cycles the technology industry has ever seen. Founders are launching products in weeks instead of months, development costs are...

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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either

Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

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AI is so expensive that humans look cheap again davidmandel.blog/trending/ai…

David Mandel Blog - AI is so expensive that humans look cheap again

In a twist of fate, the cost of using AI is so high at some companies that human employees are looking like a bargain. Reckless company spending used to look like private jets and $400 expensed sushi...

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Spending today and tomorrow meeting startup founders at ⁦@StartupGrind⁩ in the San Francisco area.
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The 12-month window techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/th… via @techcrunch

The 12-month window | TechCrunch

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.

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