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Back to SearchEp. 173 | A Privacy-First AI Company Just Became a Unicorn
Episode 173
Venice.ai raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly, valuing the company at $1 billion. The company has been profitable since i…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 172 | Google Just Taught AI to Read Your Spreadsheet
Episode 172
Google released TabFM, a zero-shot model for tabular data that performs classification and regression on tables — spreadsheets, databases, CSV files …
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 171 | Open Source AI Just Raised $800 Million
Episode 171
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C funding round in July 2026, valuing the company at approximately $8.3 billion post-money. Aramco Ventures…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 170 | The First AI Law Just Went Live
Episode 170
Colorado's AI Act (Senate Bill 24-205) became effective on June 30, 2026 — the first comprehensive state-level artificial intelligence regulation in …
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 169 | AI Just Declared War on Your Electric Bill
Episode 169
The Trump administration announced plans to fast-track 74 new or expanded fossil fuel power plants specifically to support AI data-center expansion —…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 168 | An Actress Who Doesn't Exist Just Got a Movie Deal
Episode 168
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated performer created by UK studio Particle 6, was announced as the lead in the feature film "Misaligned" in early July 20…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 167 | Your AI Chats Are Now Evidence
Episode 167
The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists hosted a webinar on July 21, 2026: "Asked. Answered. Discoverable: Are AI Chats Litigation Gold?…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 166 | OpenAI Just Built Its Own Chip
Episode 166
OpenAI revealed its first custom AI chip, codenamed Jalapeño, developed with Broadcom in approximately nine months — one-third the typical custom chi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 165 | 95% of AI Pilots Just Failed
Episode 165
MIT's 2025 State of AI in Business survey delivered a brutal number: 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots failed to show measurable financial retur…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 164 | Your AI Tool Just Got Banned by a Competitor
Episode 164
Alibaba classified Anthropic's Claude Code as "high-risk software" effective July 10, 2026, directing 120,000+ employees to use Qoder — their in-hous…
2 months, 2 weeks ago