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Opportunity Zones are expiring and startups need Congress to act

Opportunity Zones are expiring and startups need Congress to act

2025 will be a pivotal year for startups and tax policy, and one instrumental program that has been crucial to the success of the company I co-founded, Event Vesta Inc, is at risk of sunsetting.

AI Essentials: What is compute and how is it measured?

AI Essentials: What is compute and how is it measured?

If you wanted to haul large amounts of water from a well, you would (at one point in history) need a resource, like a horse, to pull the load. You would measure how much weight the horse can pull per minute in terms of “horsepower.” In the world of AI, the resource required to make models work is compute, and it’s measured in FLOPS.