A podcast-style newsletter featuring conversations with founders and researchers building hard technologies such as quantum networking, robotics, and fusion. Episodes combine guest interviews and co-host discussions that explain how difficult engineering problems are approached.
Website: https://www.toughtechtoday.com/
Publishes long-form explainer guides on frontier hardware and AI infrastructure, such as NVIDIA's Rubin Ultra, TSMC's 2nm node and OpenAI's Stargate. Each guide separates officially announced facts from reports and ends with an explicit take and the limits of what is known.
DataDeep Tech publishes in-depth analytical reports on deep tech, industrial systems, mineral supply chains and strategic infrastructure, backed by citations. Recent issues cover mineral depletion and recycling, AI-assisted discovery of Earth-Moon orbits, and whether photonics can address the memory bottleneck in AI hardware.
Sameer Nanda writes analytical essays on deep tech investing, agentic AI and the physical-world limits on technology. Issues include a company-by-company analysis of the YC W26 batch, a breakdown of Karpathy's autoresearch loop, and a hands-on look at a new low-cost semantic judgment model.
David Peterson, a venture partner at Angular Ventures, writes essays on technology company strategy and the state of the startup ecosystem. Issues cover vertical integration failures like VanMoof and Northvolt, AI-driven software development, and why venture bets have become low-variance.
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