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Want to hire for your robotics startup? The autonomous vehicle industry is ripe for picking.
As the robotics world races to mature beyond closed demonstrations, founders and CEOs in the robotics space told Business Insider that experience with deploying self-driving cars into the real world makes AV employees ideal candidates for hire. 'We…
Bloomberg Businessweek Daily: Legal AI Startup Funding
Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec bring together the latest news from the world of business and finance and the interesting stories of global technology, politics, economics and more by harnessing the power of Bloomberg Businessweek reporters and…
The AI gold rush is driving students to pause college for startup bets
'It feels like a return to the early 2000s.' That's how Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University, described what he sees as a growing trend on campus: students pausing their degrees to join early-stage AI startups. Bloom said…
AI Legal Startup Manifest Raises Funds at $750 Million Valuation
Manifest OS, a startup selling AI software to lawyers, has sealed a $60 million Series A funding round valuing it at $750 million. Investors in the round include Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital and Quiet Capital, according to a…
Founder of Shark Tank-backed startup Scholly sues his acquirer Sallie Mae
When Chris Gray sold his Shark Tank-backed scholarship search startup Scholly to Sallie Mae in 2023, he thought he had it all. Now he's suing the student loan giant for wrongful termination and alleging that it's selling the data his app collected…
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its 'mind-reading' tech for consumer wearables
BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person's head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech…
Deep Tech: The Key To India's Next Generation Of Unicorn Startups
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan is calling for a shift in focus for Indian startups, urging them to prioritise deep technology and advanced manufacturing to secure India's strategic autonomy and fuel the next wave of billion-dollar…
Chinese Billionaire Overhauls AI Startup After Warning on Manus
The fallout from Meta Platforms Inc. 's controversial acquisition of Manus is prompting one tech founder to erect strict walls between his Chinese and US businesses, calling it a regrettable but necessary template for navigating geopolitical…
A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers
Startups using AI agents have a new problem to worry about: 'vibe deletion.' Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a startup that provides software for car rental companies, said in a Friday X post that a Cursor AI agent accidentally deleted the…
Blocking of Meta's AI startup buy raises risk for cross-border China tech deals
China's blocking of Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus will heighten the risk for global investors looking to invest in advanced tech firms with ties to the country amid Beijing's expansion of jurisdictional reach to safeguard strategic assets.
Microsoft, OpenAI change terms of deal so startup can court Amazon and others
Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated a pact that let Microsoft exclusively sell the ChatGPT creator's artificial intelligence models, clearing the way for the startup to forge new deals with rivalsto the software and enterprise giant, including…
NEA's Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI
As a partner at New Enterprise Associates, Tiffany Luck invests in the AI application layer and B2B SaaS. She began on the consumer side at early-stage companies including Lot18 and pioneered the early push of CPG e-commerce at Amazon long before…
Meta Thought It Had a $2 Billion Deal for AI Startup Manus - Then China Said No
Meta and Manus were ready to stroll down the aisle together, but with the stroke of a pen, China ruined their wedding. China's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta and Manus to unwind their $2 billion acquisition in a brief…
This Startup Took On Big Ticketing and Now Processes $1 Billion Annually: 'You Just Have to Know Where the Gaps in Service Are
Robert Davari is the CEO and co-founder of Tixr, a live event commerce marketplace he launched in 2013 with fellow UCLA graduate Patrick Stavro. Their goal? Modernize the ticketing industry (i.e., make it less annoying and painful for everyone…
AI Agent Deletes Startup's Database in 9 Seconds, Founder Says
A software company founder claims an AI coding agent destroyed his firm's production database, then copped to the mistake and explained how it happened, demonstrating the potential danger of entrusting sensitive access and materials to automated…
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