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Lightspeed Venture Partners is targeting two hundred fifty million dollars for a new India-focused fund, with early-stage artificial intelligence at the center of its thesis. Notably, the Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, signaling a more integrated bet on the subcontinent's AI moment.
Shifting from capital to compute, a UK company called Heata is turning the heat problem of cloud computing into something genuinely useful for ordinary households. The firm installs rented servers in people's homes, and the waste heat those machines generate gets routed directly into the hot water supply. Heata covers any extra electricity costs, meaning homeowners come out ahead while businesses get their data stored locally.
And in a story that will resonate with anyone who has watched the search landscape shift over the past few years, a developer named Robert O'Callahan has published a post simply titled Goodbye Google, reflecting on stepping away from the search giant. It's gathered early traction on Hacker News, and it speaks to a broader conversation about loyalty, institutional change, and what it means to leave a place that once defined an era of the web.
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