Podcast Episodes

North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI vent…

1 year, 5 months ago

Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z

When Monik Pamecha co-founded AI voice startup Toma in early 2024, he hadn’t anticipated spending the summer months sweating in Bible Belt car dealer…

1 year, 5 months ago

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models

Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to …

1 year, 5 months ago

Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’

The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.

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1 year, 5 months ago

Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI

If you’ve ever been locked out of your work computer, you know the urgent need to reach IT support. Unfortunately, helpdesk staff are often busy assi…

1 year, 5 months ago

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raise…

1 year, 5 months ago

NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As…

1 year, 5 months ago

Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X

It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center att…

1 year, 5 months ago

Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste

Misfits Market, the online platform that delivers imperfect groceries to help minimize waste, announced the acquisition of household restocking servi…

1 year, 5 months ago

Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024

Just ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, Apple on Thursday announced new figures related to the U.S. App Store’s financial succe…

1 year, 5 months ago