December 2023

OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos

December 1, 2023

OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unspecified date in early 2024, the company said. The delay is almost certainly due to the leadership shakeup that occurred in November, just after the initial announcement. The news was first reported by Axios, which […]

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When Uncle Sam puts his thumb on your brake pedal

December 1, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Hello, you scrumptious specimen of a human being. Have you looked yourself in the mirror and given yourself a high five today? No? Well, here’s your chance! I’ve had a productive couple of weeks on the site. I got pissy […]

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Amazon signs 3-launch deal with SpaceX for Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation

December 1, 2023

Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday. The new deal comes scarcely two months after it was revealed that Amazon was facing a lawsuit over its decision not to consider SpaceX – the most reliable rocket company on the planet – […]

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Good old fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs

December 1, 2023

Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fraud protection? That approach seemed to go out the window with the rise of generalized LLMs, but the fact is generalized […]

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