Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales and startup shutdown this year, experts say
When accounting startup Bench abruptly failed last month, the shutdown was forced when the company's lenders called in the ...
Here are the apps battling to be become the ‘TikTok for Bluesky’
TikTok's potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could ...
AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?
It's possible that AI could birth the first one-person, billion-dollar company. But its implications for society can't be ...
India pledges fresh billion for startups
India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms and an ...
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI has been 'on the wrong side of history' concerning its ...
Autonomous vehicle testing in California dropped 50%. Here’s why.
Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California's public roads, ...
Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies
People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, ...
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models ...
Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger
Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain.
MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech dataset for AI research
The nonprofit AI safety org MLCommons has teamed up with Hugging Face to release a public domain dataset of speech recordings ...
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model
OpenAI has launched a new 'reasoning' AI model, o3-mini, the successor to the AI startup's o1 family of reasoning models.
Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund
When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was ...