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 ...
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 ...
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.
Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025
Karman Holdings: Another space and defense startup, Karman confidentially filed to go public in January 2025 and aims to ...
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 ...
Stablecoins are finding product-market fit in emerging markets
SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to more than 100 countries. But as ...
DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was wrong about FSD; teens losing ...
Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo
What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 ...
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, ...
Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention
A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors' attention.
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 ...
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 ...