Weekly Dose of Optimism #217
THE SO WHAT
A single newsletter stitching together defense tech, brain-computer interfaces, AI science, and robotics shows how investors are now treating these as one macro thesis. If you’re building in any of these lanes, assume you’re competing for the same capital and narrative bandwidth.
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