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AI has transformed entrepreneurship from slow, manual grind to high-speed creation. Startups now build smarter, not bigger—leveraging AI tools, infrastructure, and models to outpace traditional development. The new gold rush isn’t apps—it’s the algorithms and architectures powering them.

The City of Santa Cruz has launched its newly redesigned website offering an improved, mobile-friendly platform and is actively welcoming community feedback to ensure the site best serves all residents.

In a digital world obsessed with efficiency, the Genomics Rooftop Mixer on October 28 reminds us that real progress still happens face-to-face — where trust, curiosity, and collaboration ignite ideas no algorithm can replicate.

The United Nations is hosting their Reboot the Earth Hackathon at UC Santa Cruz.

Angela Brooks and her team are rewriting cancer research with FLAIR, a tool that reveals hidden RNA isoforms driving tumor growth and drug resistance—insights that could revolutionize precision medicine.

Introducing the AHSC Interns: Melanie Kate at Go Ask Alice provides vital digital storytelling to a beloved local business.

UCSC’s UShER platform tracks viruses in real time, turning millions of genomes into a global outbreak map used by the CDC and WHO. Meet the team behind the pandemic’s hidden hero at the Genomics Rooftop Mixer on October 28.

UCSC’s Braingeneers are growing living human brain organoids—tiny neural networks that light up, connect, and respond like real tissue.

PVUSD urgently needs your expertise to help shape the future of education.

GOODLES has officially landed on LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups list for 2025.

UC Santa Cruz’s Karen Miga helped unlock the final 8% of our DNA, transforming research on health and human evolution.

OpenRoad Technologies secured a $185K Michigan grant to pilot the first home-based Level 3 DC fast charger merging Tesla Supercharger power with Powerwall resilience for residential use.

Robotics Cats and its technology adaptor Indicium Dynamics were selected by Solar Impulse Foundation as one of the Pioneers Awards 2025 Winners! 

Jeremy Sanford’s UCSC lab decodes how RNA messages get corrupted in disease—and how to fix them. From rare disorders to cancer to global parasites, they’re rewriting life’s code to create faster, smarter, RNA-based cures for humanity.

A hidden crisis in food safety meets its turning point. Santa Cruz-based Paramagnetix’s PX2 biosensor detects pathogens instantly—bringing lab-grade precision to kitchens and factories, redefining trust in the food we eat and the systems that protect us.

Cruzio Internet has completed our Equal Access Summits to Sea (EAS2C) project — a California State grant-funded effort that brings high-speed, affordable internet to thousands of residents from Half Moon Bay to Salinas.

Logicea’s acquisition of Toby Corey’s Tuul Technologies reflects the Santa Cruz spirit of innovation—where creativity meets foresight—and showcases how agentic AI is transforming enterprises at a pace surpassing even Moore’s Law, accelerating humanity’s digital evolution.

Logicea’s acquisition of Tuul Technologies unites two innovators in applied and agentic AI, accelerating enterprise transformation worldwide and showcasing Santa Cruz–born ingenuity scaling to the global stage of next-generation AI solutions.

Steve Blank warns that America’s innovation engine—built on science, engineering, and entrepreneurship—is shutting down. Cutting research funding weakens startups, national security, and economic power, risking U.S. leadership as countries like China invest heavily in science.