Podcast Episodes

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen

Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient.

Plus, Palantir said on Thursday it had st…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood

The round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures.

Also, Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race

Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs

After endless Silicon Valley takes on how generative AI would radically change scientific discovery, the founders decided that the pieces were finall…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

Abu-Ghazaleh said his two-month-old company promises to cut inefficiencies in high-stakes sectors like aviation, logistics, and oil and gas through a…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

"The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most connected,”  Zehra Naqvi told…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you

Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app f…

5 months, 4 weeks ago