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Is it time to 'refound' your startup?
Sometimes, founding a startup just once isn't enough. At least, that seems to be the case with companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor, which all announced in recent months that they are “refounding.” As reported in The New…
What I'm hearing on Tom Brady's Raiders rut and the startup that could save the Colts
This column is coming out on December 6th and mostly being read on the 7th, and my brain immediately goes to “6-7.” Blame the little boy who sat behind me in church recently. The priest said, “Open to hymn 678,” and…
Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls
For years, a US telecommunications company has been building proprietary AI models using phone and video calls placed by inmates in US prisons as building blocks. According to MIT Technology Review, the private equity-backed Securus Technologies…
Startup Building 'Air Traffic Control' to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A
Let's face it: American roads aren't friendly places for pedestrians. They often feature ungodly numbers of extra-wide lanes, infinite parking lots, and tons of active driveways for cars to access chain stores and restaurants. As it turns out…
Read Asseta AI's pitch deck. The startup raised $4.2 million to solve a major pain point for family offices.
Family offices in the US managed $3.1 trillion worth of assets last year, according to a Deloitte report. That's more than the market caps of Meta and Tesla, combined. But many family offices manage all of those assets using relatively basic…
A 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout shares how she lured Meta's top AI researchers and raised $64 million for her math startup
A 24-year-old Stanford dropout has wooed top Meta AI researchers to her nascent startup, which is building an AI mathematician. Axiom Math is the brainchild of Carina Hong, a Rhodes Scholar who dropped out of her graduate studies at Stanford to…
Meta buys AI wearables startup Limitless
Meta on Friday confirmed it is buying Limitless, a U.S. startup that makes a wearable pendant that records and summarises conversations and meetings with the help of artificial intelligence. Financial details of the deal to acquire the…
This Startup With 60% Employees On The Autism Spectrum Beat Meta-Backed $14B Scale AI For $708 Million Pentagon AI Contract - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
Artificial intelligence company Enabled Intelligence, with a majority neurodiverse workforce, announced on Nov. 24 that it has secured the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's largest data labeling contract. The contract win marks a…
Pat Gelsinger wants to save Moore's Law, with a little help from the Feds
A year after being pushed out of Intel, Pat Gelsinger is still waking up at 4 a.m., still in the thick of the semiconductor wars — just on a different battlefield. Now a general partner at venture firm Playground Global, he's working with 10…
How would the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal reshape Hollywood?
It's only been a day since Netflix announced an $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., and the acquisition has already been described as sending Hollywood into “ full-blown panic mode,” “ possibly a death blow to…
PCMC strengthens international collaboration for a sustainable and liveable future
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) hosted Geert Robberechts, Director of India House, Leuven, Belgium during his two-day visit to the city on December 3 and 4, aimed at exploring opportunities for collaboration between PCMC and the…
Creator IShowSpeed sued for allegedly punching, choking viral humanoid Rizzbot
In September, popular creator IShowSpeed live-streamed his meeting with the popular humanoid influencer Rizzbot. Rizzbot has more than a million followers (and 800 million views) across social media and is known for its comedic roasting of…
OpenAI Can't Use the 'io' Name for Its AI Hardware Device, Court Rules
OpenAI's hardware ambitions have hit a new roadblock after a court banned it from using the 'io' name for its upcoming AI device. Jony Ive—the former Apple designer who helped create the original iPhone during his decades-long career at…
Why Lili Reinhart Has Skin In The Beauty Game
In 2011, the then 14-year-old Lili Reinhart and her mom hopped in the family minivan for an eight-hour ride from Cleveland to New York City for an open audition. She got the part—a role in a fifteen-minute short film called The Most Girl…
I lived in a converted toolshed after the 2008 recession. It taught me resilience, and now, I run multiple businesses.
I lost everything in 2007 at the start of the recession. I was just 23 years old and suddenly homeless. First, I lost my job overnight. With no income, I struggled to find a new apartment — just a few days after moving out of my old one. I…
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