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Week of Apr 22:

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

1/ Organismic approaches to carbon sequestration - synthetic biology platforms to design microorganisms that can improve the carbon capture in agriculture as well as nature based solutions

3/ Won't be evil on the frontend, can't be evil on the backend - the emergence of hybrid architectures where a front end is designed to be very consumer friendly and accessible and secure but its operating on a fully decentralized protocol

4/ Human Certified Content - amidst the rise of AI-generated entertainment, there may be a growing importance placed on content that is certified as human generated and there may be a premium placed on it.

5/ Sign all things - the importance of digitally signing all types of content (images, essays, etc.) to maintain authenticity and ensure the original creator is credited. It was discussed in the context of the potential of blockchain technology to facilitate this process.

2/ Advancing Computational Material Science - the development and application of computational methods and algorithms to predict and understand the properties of new industrial materials.