⚓ Ahoy there! Two recent @masslive.bsky.social columns hit the water to focus on a rescue drone and a new AI-enabled hydrophone: www.masslive.com/news/2026/05... www.masslive.com/boston/2026/...

Boston startup Path.ai, focused on "AI-powered precision pathology," will be acquired by Roche for up to $1B: www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Robotics entrepreneur Colin Angle was in New York this week to reveal his new startup’s first product. He’s taking on one of the hardest challenges in the robotics market: creating a robot that millions of people will want to live with. www.masslive.com/news/2026/05... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Can robots — and a new approach to modular building — help Massachusetts add housing? www.masslive.com/news/2026/04... — via @masslive.bsky.social And @wbur.org Morning Edition segment in the first comment below...

Here in MA, we don’t think we need to shape a brand and a marketing message for people considering coming here to work, staying here after graduation, or moving their business here. We just assume they all know about our merits. www.masslive.com/news/2026/04... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Just 15 runners lined up at the starting line for the first Boston Marathon in 1897. David Grilk hopes to get nearly that many robots to participate in a race he’s planning for Sunday in Boston’s Seaport. There are two categories: humanoids and quadrupeds. www.masslive.com/news/2026/04...

As the Artemis II crew rockets back to earth after a record-setting journey around the moon, there’s a gray box in the capsule that contains technology made by a Boston biotech startup that has hit some important milestones of its own. www.masslive.com/news/2026/04... — via @masslive.bsky.social

In the @wsj.com: Cambridge venture capitalist Dave Blundin spent $5.4 million of his own money last year to buy six-unit apartment building near MIT to house some of the founders his firm, Link Ventures, has backed. (Link pays half the rent.) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...

The only candy factory in the state that is still mass-producing candy on a national scale is just outside Central Square in Cambridge... and it seems like change is afoot in the executive ranks of that company. www.masslive.com/boston/2026/... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Whoop co-founder John Capodilupo is focused on a new challenge: tracking health indicators with a device that attaches to the rim of a toilet. He’s a co-founder of Throne, a Texas startup that describes itself as “Whoop for your poop.” www.masslive.com/news/2026/03... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Wrote about BOS-based Merlin Labs, working on autonomous tech for aircraft, earlier this year on @masslive.bsky.social. The company just started trading on NASDAQ this week, raising $200 million in a SPAC deal: www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...

This past Saturday, when I should have been cleaning up the yard and folding some laundry, I was instead gazing into my laptop in the kitchen, finishing up a (free!) certificate program in artificial intelligence. Here's what I learned: www.masslive.com/news/2026/03...

The underground student group at Harvard and MIT that VCs are desperate to access

Would be big, if it happens.... Y Combinator's CEO is mulling a return to Cambridge www.masslive.com/news/2026/03... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Six international companies are relocating to Boston as part of an artificial intelligence health care accelerator, backed by Sheba Medical Center in Israel. www.masslive.com/news/2026/03... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Crazy stat: Whoop's acceptance rate for job applicants is 0.13%. Harvard, where Whoop's co-founders went to college, has a 3.6% acceptance rate. Link below is the Whoop press release today announcing 600 new jobs. www.whoop.com/us/en/press-...

The more snow, the better for Teradar, a Boston startup that’s building new technology for military and civilian vehicles. www.masslive.com/news/2026/03... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Apparently P.E.T.A. just sent a letter to President Trump asking him to replace the working dogs in the military (as well as police force K-9s) with robot dogs like Spot from Boston Dynamics.

Official data doesn’t capture it, and it may be tough to believe as you’re digging out from this week’s blizzard, but it’s a fact: some people who leave Massachusetts eventually boomerang back. I spoke to a handful of them: www.masslive.com/news/2026/02... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Fascinating piece from Juliet Schulman-Hall at @masslive.bsky.social: This New England college campus is on the market — and the price tag is $0 www.masslive.com/education/20...

As Mass. continues to mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Worcester area is counting down to a milestone of its own: the centennial of Robert Goddard’s pioneering liquid‑fueled rocket launches in March 1926. www.masslive.com/news/2026/02... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Here's what happened at the launch event for the new Massachusetts AI Coalition, held last night at Whoop HQ in Kenmore Square... www.masslive.com/news/2026/02... — via @masslive.bsky.social

This is wild... the @wsj.com writes 900 words about a nuclear power startup, Alva Energy, that just raised $33M and has former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger among its backers... but forgets to mention where it is located. (Cambridge, MA!) www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Last week, Waymo announced it had raised $16 billion in fresh capital... and that it intends to launch its driverless taxi service in Boston. Here are five things to know as that process plays out in Massachusetts. www.masslive.com/business/202... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Exit interviews: Talking to people who've left Massachusetts. The top three factors that influenced their decision probably won’t surprise you... www.masslive.com/news/2026/02... — via @masslive.bsky.social

At the Tesla showroom in BOS last Wed, employees from xAI hosted one of the first gatherings of the recently-formed Massachusetts AI Coalition, a group created to support artificial intelligence companies. Here's what I know: www.masslive.com/news/2026/01... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Two Mass. residents show up on the new Sping Magazine list of the 26 most influential people in music: www.spin.com/2026/01/the-... (from Suno + Berklee College of Music)

In December, a job opening appeared that could offer a hint about what comes next for Boston Dynamics, which is owned by the South Korean car maker Hyundai Motor Group. www.masslive.com/business/202... — via @masslive.bsky.social #robotics

Two of the #AI industry’s most valuable startups have quietly planted their flags in the Boston area: Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, and Lovable, which makes an AI "vibe coding" tool. Here's who they've hired... www.masslive.com/news/2026/01... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Just launched today by Whoop, the Boston-based fitness band maker: the Massachusetts AI Coalition (complete with clever logo!) www.whoop.com/us/en/press-... Also includes Suno, Lovable, DraftKings, Wayfair, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Circle, Blitzy, Jellyfish, Formlabs + more co's....

For one year — just one year! — What if we all tried to be Mass. boosters, rather than Mass. criticizers, Mass. fault-finders or plain old Massholes? www.masslive.com/news/2026/01... — via @masslive.bsky.social

BOS-based Merlin Labs hopes to go public this year. The company is developing "AI copilots" for military planes like an aerial refueling tanker and a four-engine cargo and passenger plane. And it is testing with Cessna Caravans as well. www.masslive.com/news/2026/01... — via @masslive.bsky.social

BOS-based startup, with production facility in NH: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/b...

This was one of those only-in-Boston opportunities — like tossing out the first pitch at Fenway — that felt too good to pass up, despite the pressure. www.masslive.com/destinations... — via @masslive.bsky.social #merrychristmastoall #andtoallagoodnight

7 ideas for rebooting Boston's beleaguered Faneuil Hall Marketplace in advance of its 50th birthday: www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...

Cambridge biotech will invest $250M in Mass. production facility, add jobs

Talking with three Mass. venture capitalists about what happened to startup investing in 2025 — and what could change next year: www.masslive.com/news/2025/12... — via @masslive.bsky.social

"Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcelain." — George F. Will in the @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4pChimy

This week's Techstars Boston demo day was held at Google’s office in Kendall Square. Are these the most promising two startups that presented? My informal panel of 11 judges thought so... www.masslive.com/news/2025/12... — via @masslive.bsky.social

How do teenagers feel about the arrival of the AI age? I assembled a focus group of eight Massachusetts teens to get their take. Here's what they said in our group text: www.masslive.com/news/2025/12... #AI #education — via @masslive.bsky.social

The new robot warehouse worker from Tutor Intelligence won’t work for minimum wage. But pay it $18 an hour, and it will uncomplainingly pick up boxes and plunk them onto wooden pallets — three shifts a day, with no breaks www.masslive.com/business/202... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Launching next month: A new print mag for adults who love LEGO... www.masslive.com/news/2025/11... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Big #AI funding round for a Cambridge startup.... with some coming from NVIDIA Ventures www.wsj.com/business/med...

Can this startup solve fusion? Fusion power doesn’t pump carbon into the atmosphere, and has fewer safety risks compared to traditional nuclear reactors. Commonwealth Fusion Systems — and its investors – think we're on the cusp... www.masslive.com/news/2025/11... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Most people have amassed a shelf full of board games somewhere in their home. But what if the next game you buy is the last one you’ll ever need? That’s the promise behind Board, a new startup aiming to reinvent family game night. www.masslive.com/news/2025/11... — via @masslive.bsky.social

What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? Here's what I saw last week on a visit to MIT's new Living Lab... www.masslive.com/news/2025/11... — via @masslive.bsky.social

We love our statues in Boston, as long as they represent historic figures who are now dead and preferably on horseback. But erect something fun that might wind up in someone’s Instagram feed? That’s just not our jam. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10... — via @masslive.bsky.social

Some sudden sprouts of hope in #biotech, with $1 billion in new funding announced last week by just two Boston-area startups, Kaleira Therapeutics in Waltham and Lila Sciences in Cambridge. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10... — via @masslive.bsky.social

As Major League Baseball barrels toward the World Series later this month, one Massachusetts startup has been rooting for the teams using its technology. Founded in 2021, Infinite Sky uses AI to analyze video from baseball games... www.masslive.com/news/2025/10... — via @masslive.bsky.social

The Sec. of Energy came to MA to visit to a fusion reactor startup with @massgovernor.bsky.social. And then his Department cut $466 million of grants in the state. What gives? I spoke with Emily Reichert of the Mass. Clean Energy Center: www.masslive.com/news/2025/10... — via @masslive.bsky.social