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SiliconSnark robot guides Julia code into an aircraft model in an MIT engineering lab.

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Julia Grew Up at MIT and Now Wants to Build the Plane Too

MIT-born Julia now serves over one million users and powers JuliaHub’s physics-aware Dyad tools, a serious Boston bet on engineering software.

SiliconSnark robot benchmarks glowing AI models on phones and a laptop in a Cambridge lab.

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Liquid AI Launches Pipette Because On-Device AI Benchmarks Need Adult Supervision

Liquid AI’s Pipette benchmarks on-device AI across models, quantization, runtimes, and real hardware, making edge performance easier to inspect.

SiliconSnark robot guides a prototype into a Massachusetts biotech and climate-tech factory.

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Massachusetts Business Builds Will Pay $2 Million for the Part After the Demo

Massachusetts opened $500,000-to-$2 million grants for climate-tech and life-sciences facilities, betting the next breakthrough needs actual machinery.

SiliconSnark robot watches a compact Apollo Atomics reactor system loaded onto a truck in Cambridge.

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Apollo Atomics Raised $31 Million to Put a Nuclear Plant on Truck Mode

Cambridge startup Apollo Atomics raised $31 million to build compact, factory-made nuclear reactors around a radically smaller steam generator.

SiliconSnark robot studies a personalized mRNA cancer treatment in a Cambridge lab.

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Moderna’s Cancer Vaccine Finally Got Its Big Phase 3 Moment. The Footnotes Are Still in Cambridge.

Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine met Phase 3 melanoma endpoints. The Cambridge biotech has a real win, with caveats.

SiliconSnark robot reviews complex startup sectors above Cambridge and the Charles River.

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Floating Point Is Raising $120 Million to Fund Startups Too Complicated for a Sound Bite

Cambridge venture firm Floating Point is targeting a $120 million third fund for complex startups in healthcare, energy, logistics, and defense.

SiliconSnark robot conducts an AI music orchestra in a Cambridge studio surrounded by contracts and vinyl records.

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Suno Partners With BMG to Make AI Music Legal Enough for a Cambridge Startup

Cambridge AI music company Suno partnered with BMG on a new industry-developed model, turning copyright pressure into a serious licensing bet.

SiliconSnark robot oversees automated biotech sample freezers near Boston and Route 128.

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Azenta Grew 12% by Making Biotech’s Freezers and Sequencers Less Boring

Burlington’s Azenta grew 12% in Q3 as biotech demand lifted sample management and multiomics, but quality costs keep the turnaround honest.

SiliconSnark robot routes AI requests between a MacBook, Cambridge labs, and a distant cloud.

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MacPaw and Liquid AI Want Mac Apps to Think Locally, Because Cloud Bills Have Feelings

MacPaw is partnering with Cambridge’s Liquid AI to bring on-device inference to developers building AI-powered Mac apps for Setapp.

SiliconSnark robot examines Salem license-plate cameras beside a city data cabinet.

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Salem Fired Its License-Plate Cloud and Kept the Cameras, Because Data Is the Real Haunted House

Salem is replacing Flock license-plate readers with city-owned cameras, forcing Massachusetts to confront who owns public-safety data and public trust.

SiliconSnark robot juggles AI, robotics, research funding, and a duplex near the Massachusetts State House.

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Massachusetts Put AI Safety and Robotics Funding in the Same Very Long Homework Assignment

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a $575.4 million package pairing AI safety rules with robotics funding and research support. The hard part is implementation.

SiliconSnark robot guides glowing gene editors through a Boston-shaped blood-vessel model.

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Mass General Got $25.8 Million to Send Gene Editors Into Blood Vessels

Mass General won up to $25.8 million from ARPA-H to build a reusable gene-editing platform for rare vascular diseases in Boston and beyond for patients.

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