Podcast Episodes

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green, the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/so…

1 year, 2 months ago

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news

It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's. Also, Ultrahuman a…

1 year, 2 months ago

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more

While an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed that the AI firm did not acquire Humanloop or its IP, that’s a moot point in an industry where IP lives in …

1 year, 2 months ago

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more

Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her ne…

1 year, 2 months ago

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, a…

1 year, 2 months ago

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

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1 year, 2 months ago

Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

As more solid rocket motor suppliers are coming online, a supply chain chokepoint looms.

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1 year, 2 months ago

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Serie…

1 year, 2 months ago

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.

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1 year, 3 months ago