Siliconnector by Zamir Shukho

The Indian stock market completely COLLAPSED today after the Trump Administration suspended H-1B and foreign labor programs over fraud.

The largest IT outsourcing firms in the world, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini were removed from the Permanent Labor Certification Program.

75% of Cognizant employees in the U.S. are Indian nationals.

Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and HCL are all based in India.

When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade.

Ever wanted your own private jet? Now you can. )

This is probably one of the coolest marketing videos I've ever seen.

Terminator 2 was one of the epic movies of my childhood, and Figure turned its most iconic ending into a real product moment. They had Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, a steel plant in Imatra, Finland, a 75-ton electric arc furnace, and F.02 humanoid robots going into the molten metal one by one.

They could have retired their second-generation robot with a press release. Instead, they built a full story around it, from Arnold on social media to a real furnace in Finland. They even sell the recovered metal as limited-edition F.02 Decommission Artifacts.

It's a great reminder that the best marketing doesn't explain the product. It makes you feel something about it.

The full story: https://lnkd.in/gRWZe8YM
F.02 Decommission Artifacts: https://lnkd.in/eSad4UrE

Yesterday was a big day for AI in Washington.

President Trump and six AI leaders (Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang) signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Its a voluntary commitment to four layers of safety controls: internal monitoring of model risks, an internal team to verify those controls work, independent external audits, and board-level oversight. It has no legal force for now.

Still, when the biggest labs agree on one structure, it quickly becomes the benchmark for everyone else.


A few other things:

• An executive order now directs federal agencies to use Super Intelligence (SI) in place of AI, and calls for a new federal definition within 60 days.

• Jensen Huang made the case for monitoring AI agents in real time from a separate chip outside the system being watched. Safety is moving into the hardware itself.

• America.gov launched as a single AI-powered entry point that pulls from 29,000+ federal websites, with plans to handle forms and applications by early 2027.

Now you know how AI models burn tokens.

€100,000 for women founders — and that’s only one of the opportunities in this collection.

A useful roundup of funding opportunities for women founders was recently shared, covering grants, prizes, accelerator programs, and venture funding.

Here are 10 opportunities worth checking out — and credit to the original authors who researched and shared them.

1. Women TechEU — €75,000 equity-free
For women-led deeptech startups. €75,000 without giving up equity, plus support to help develop the company.
[https://lnkd.in/esWEyw-R](https://lnkd.in/esWEyw-R)

2. European Prize for Women Innovators — up to €100,000
For women who founded or co-founded an innovative company in the EU or a Horizon Europe associated country.
Deadline: December 1.
[https://lnkd.in/e5wxJK8F](https://lnkd.in/e5wxJK8F)

3. Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund II — €33.3M fund
Invests in startups with at least one woman on the founding team. Typical first check is around €500K.
[https://lnkd.in/eiypF7s2](https://lnkd.in/eiypF7s2)

4. Press Play AI Pre-Accelerator
For women building AI companies. 25 places, business development support, and a $5,000 prize pool.
Deadline: October 15.
[https://lnkd.in/eWZ6yvxt](https://lnkd.in/eWZ6yvxt)

5. Makers Mindset × The Equity Studio — five $10,000 grants
Equity-free funding for women-owned beauty and wellness companies.
Deadline: October 9.
[https://lnkd.in/eHVQ7i8A](https://lnkd.in/eHVQ7i8A)

6. Startup Refugees Entrepreneurship Awards — €5,000–€10,000
For women entrepreneurs with a migrant or refugee background building businesses in Finland. Includes mentoring and network access.
[https://lnkd.in/eX8NQMHT](https://lnkd.in/eX8NQMHT)

7. Entreprenista Evolve Grant — $5,000
For women founders running established businesses with proven revenue.
Deadline: November 11.
[https://lnkd.in/eiTRUidV](https://lnkd.in/eiTRUidV)

8. More than $100K in current grants for women founders
A collection of several funding programs for women entrepreneurs.
[https://lnkd.in/eYKufzng](https://lnkd.in/eYKufzng)

9. High Five Grant for Moms
For mothers who own businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
Deadline: September 30.
[https://lnkd.in/eWtdmQbM](https://lnkd.in/eWtdmQbM)

10. Amber Grants + HerRise + Yippitydoo
Three rolling programs for women entrepreneurs, providing opportunities beyond short application windows.
[https://lnkd.in/eTFAgUWs](https://lnkd.in/eTFAgUWs)

There’s also a separate collection of 47 European non-dilutive funding programs specifically for women founders:
[https://lnkd.in/efyvN9Qv](https://lnkd.in/efyvN9Qv)

Worth sharing with a woman founder who might benefit from one of these opportunities.

It's Friday MEME time.

Machine Learning explained.

Burn tokens now, save lives later.

A Year Can Mean Very Different Things Across the Solar System

A “year” doesn’t last the same amount of time on every planet. Each planet follows its own pace as it orbits the Sun. ☀️🪐

While Earth takes about 365 days to complete one orbit, other planets have very different orbital periods. Their years can last just a few months—or even more than a century.

Gen Z is now the world’s largest generation, with an estimated 2.04 billion people - 24.8% of the global population. Millennials follow at 1.87 billion (22.6%), while Gen Alpha accounts for 1.74 billion (21.1%).

Together, these three generations represent about 5.65 billion people, or 68.5% of humanity. Nearly 62% of the global population is under 40, placing an extraordinary share of the world in childhood, early adulthood or core working age.

The implications are broad. Millennials are shaping housing, family formation and labor markets; Gen Z is rapidly entering the workforce and redefining expectations around technology, flexibility and purpose; Gen Alpha will grow up in a world increasingly shaped by AI, climate pressures and digital infrastructure.

The bigger story is not simply which generation is largest, but how three massive cohorts are moving through very different life stages at the same time, reshaping education, work, consumption and public policy.

Sources: DataReportal, Oct. 2025. Generational estimates and methodology by World Visualized. Additional analysis: Deloitte, UNICEF, Pew Research Center.

My friend Dilara Rustam is organizing a great event this Sunday for the next generation of entrepreneurs

🚀 From Idea to Startup: Entrepreneurship Basics for Young Founders
A hands-on workshop for ages 12–18 where participants will learn how to identify real problems, turn them into business ideas, understand customers, build a simple business model, and pitch their startup.

There will also be a panel with young founders sharing their own experiences.
📍 Menlo Park
📅 Sunday, September 20 | 2–5 PM
👨‍👩‍👧 Parents attend with participants

If you have teenagers interested in entrepreneurship, startups, or building things, this is a great opportunity.

RSVP: luma.com/9vi8xlod

Feel free to share with parents who might be interested.

Robots and humans performing live. Impressive.

Tesla and Waymo are taking two very different roads to autonomy.

Tesla is betting on scale: more cars, more miles, more data.

Waymo is betting on control: more sensors, more redundancy, more precision.

The winner won’t be decided by who looks better in a few cities today.

It’ll be whoever can make autonomous driving work reliably almost anywhere — and scale it economically.