Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI, recently left to join a new artificial intelligence research lab founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, according to two pe… [+2476 chars]

It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.

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Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

If you click 'Accept all', we and our partners, including 239 who are part of the IAB Transparency &amp; Consent Framework, will also store and/or access information on a device (in other words, use … [+703 chars]

Canoo said on Friday night that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
 and “will cease operations effective immediately,” after failing to secure enough funding to keep it going. The writing was on the wall for the EV startup leading up to the announcement; …

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EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and stopped all operations

A pair of tech trade groups are suing the federal government over its attempts to regulate digital payment apps and wallets like banks. A lawsuit filed against the Consumer Financial Protection Burea… [+3142 chars]

After a fintech startup recently lost its users funds, it is hard to find sympathy for tech companies seeking loosened regulation.

Gizmodo.com

Tech Lobbyists Are Mad Feds Want to Regulate Digital Payment Apps Like Banks

Donald Trump has inspired laughs, jeers, disbelief, and outrage, by proposing that the U.S. buy Greenland. Nobody quite knows what to think of the president-elect’s proposal. Trump isn’t the only per… [+3632 chars]

A techno-colonialist project sees Greenland as the perfect opportunity to trial its utopian ambitions.

Peter Thiel-backed Startup That Wanted to Buy Greenland Is Thrilled That Trump Wants to Buy Greenland

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<ul><li>Google cofounder Larry Page made an appearance at a Y Combinator meeting in December.</li><li>He spoke to a group from the Fall 2024 class of startups.</li><li>… [+1839 chars]

Google's cofounder was invited to speak to startup founders during a recent Y Combinator event.

Business Insider

Google cofounder Larry Page made a rare appearance at a recent Y Combinator meeting

Anthropic is yet another worthless joiner on the wagon of "our LLMs seem to be intelligence."
$60 Billion? They're not worth one billion. It's like bitcoin only slightly less speculative gambling.
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Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion dollars in a deal that would value it at $60 billion, making it the latest artificial-intelligence startup to seize upon investor euphoria for the technology. WSJ: The funding round is being led by the ventur…

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AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funding Valuing it at $60 Billion

A preliminary, ongoing probe into the agritech startup, backed by investors including SoftBank and Temasek, estimates that management inflated revenue by almost $600 million in the nine months throug… [+711 chars]

EFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, may have inflated its revenue and profit over several years, according to an internal investigation triggered by a whistleblower's claim about the company's accounting. Bloomberg News: A preliminary, ongoi…

SoftBank-Backed Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup that was spun out of a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s research labs, announced plans this week to break ground on what it calls “the wor… [+2336 chars]

Commonwealth Fusion Systems pun out of a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research labs.

MIT-Linked Company Says It Will Build ‘World’s First Grid-Scale’ Nuclear Fusion Power Plant

xAI was founded by Elon Musk in 2023.Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
<ul><li>Elon Musk's startup xAI has attracted top talent since launching in July 2023. </li><li>xAI has raised more than $… [+6967 chars]

Meet the key figures at Elon Musk's xAI, the $50 billion startup behind the chatbot Grok that's taking on ChatGPT.

Meet the power players at Elon Musk's xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot

John Pasmore Cofounder and CEO Latimer AILatimer AI
<ul><li>Latimer AI plans to launch a bias detection tool as a Chrome browser extension in January.</li><li>The tool scores text from one to 10, wi… [+2491 chars]

The startup said its new tool can check and correct online text for bias, while drawing in new users.

Latimer AI startup to launch bias detection tool for web browsers

Ted Farnsworth.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
<ul><li>Ted Farnsworth pleaded guilty to defrauding investors in MoviePass and Vinco.</li><li>Farnsworth has been in prison since August 2023.</li><li>MoviePass's… [+2411 chars]

MoviePass' $10-a-month plan was launched after Farnsworth bought the startup while CEO of Helios and Matheson.

Former MoviePass executive Ted Farnsworth pleads guilty to defrauding investors

If door cameras fail to dissuade porch pirates, perhaps a giant, pin-code-locked package safe will. The Hyve delivery pod asks drivers to drop packages in a bin secured to your doorframe. Even if pir… [+2043 chars]

The Hyve safe keeps deliveries behind a pin code or phone-activated lock, if delivery drivers decide to use it.

The Hyve Parcel Safe Prevents Porch Pirates By Screaming at Them

A Snyk security researcher has published malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor, an AI coding startup, in what appears to be a dependency confusion attack. The packages, which collect and transmit s… [+467 chars]

A Snyk security researcher has published malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor, an AI coding startup, in what appears to be a dependency confusion attack. The packages, which collect and transmit system data to an attacker-controlled server, were published …

Snyk Researcher Caught Deploying Malicious Code Targeting AI Startup

Martins Lasmanis and his family.Courtesy of Martins Lasmanis
<ul><li>Martins Lasmanis, the founder of Supliful, struggles with balancing startup growth and family time.</li><li>Supliful quickly gain… [+4963 chars]

Martins Lasmanis youngest son is three years old — and so is his startup. He feels he's missed out on getting to watch his three children grown up.

I'm a father of 3 working up to 16 hours a day. The guilt of missing my kids grow up is torturous.

Elon Musk's xAI raised $6 billion in its Series C funding round.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic via Getty Images
<ul><li>Elon Musk's xAI raised $6 billion in its Series C fundraising, the startup announced … [+2619 chars]

Elon Musk's xAI, the startup behind the Grok chatbot and Colossus supercomputer, raised $6 billion in a Series C funding round.

Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion in fresh funding: 'We are gonna need a bigger compute!'

Prospinity cofounders Samvel Antonyan, Andrea Zanon, Aarya Agarwal, and Andrea De Berardinis.Prospinity
<ul><li>Prospinity allows college students to share in their success through income-share agre… [+5275 chars]

They made a pact to share their income with each other. Their startup, Prospinity, allows college students to strike that same deal with their peers.

Prospinity, which allows college students to share their future incomes, just raised $2 million

Arthur Mensch, cofounder and CEO of Mistral.Thierry Monasse/Getty Images
<ul><li>Mistral plans to IPO instead of a sale, its CEO said in an interview at the World Economic Forum.</li><li>Founded in … [+2266 chars]

French AI startup Mistral, dubbed Europe's OpenAI, plans an IPO, not a sale, as it expands globally with over €1 billion raised since 2023.

Buzzy French AI startup Mistral isn't for sale and plans to IPO, its CEO says

Nichole Wischoff, 34, is the founder of Wischoff Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.Nichole Wischoff
<ul><li>Nichole Wischoff worked at Citi for a year before leaving for the startup worl… [+3705 chars]

Nichole Wischoff worked at Citi for a year before leaving for the startup world. She founded her own early-stage venture capital firm in 2020.

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