Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness, plus another app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic
Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be expl…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market, also Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue
SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwave…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI, plus ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe
Nuclearn got its start when the founders were working at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station just west of Phoenix. They had been experimenting …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC, Space DOTS raises $1.5M, and Cognition AI defied turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation
Deep Fission is proposing to build small, cylindrical nuclear power plants and lower them into 30-inch diameter holes drilled one mile down into the …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
Why is a startup that bills itself as the “Netflix of AI,” and that recently raised money from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, talking about remaking a movie th…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps
If you spend any time online, there’s a good chance you’ve seen plenty of ugly, AI-generated ads — but few to none when interacting with AI chatbots …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries and more tech news
Sodium-ion battery startup Natron ceased operations this week, ending the company’s 12-year quest to commercialize its technology in the U.S.
The com…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
AI logistics startup Augment raised massive $85M Series A; plus Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
On Thursday, Augment announced that it raised an $85 million Series A led by Redpoint, with participation from 8VC, Autotech Ventures, and others. Th…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M; also, Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said, ‘today’s browsers weren’t built for work; they were built for browsing. This deal is a bol…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI; also, Mistral on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation
On Wednesday, Orchard Robotics announced that it raised a $22 million Series A funding led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital, and with participation…
5 months, 3 weeks ago