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Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build rockets for space data centers; plus what will the whisper-filled office of the future sound like

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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom; plus, Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack

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