Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois’ comments on ICE shooting
Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm’s founder to distance themseves from his comments on ICE.
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by the site, a new analysis has found. The study, from researchers at Stanford and Indiana…
YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models
The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.
After 20 Years in Business, I Can Tell You the Two Forces That Make or Break a Company
Mastering both access to capital and disciplined spending is the key to turning uncertainty into lasting business success.
Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok’s US takeover
UpScrolled’s TikTok alternative is climbing up the App Store’s top charts.
Rad Power Bikes reaches deal to sell itself for $13.2 million
A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power’s assets. It’s not clear what the company plans to do with them, though.
This Leadership Behavior Feels Responsible — But It’s Destroying Momentum and Frustrating Your Team
You don’t lose momentum because people don’t care. You lose it because decisions take too long to land, too long to stick and too long to turn into action.
How to Keep Your Business Thriving When the Market Changes and Disruption Strikes
When forces outside your control start moving fast, the real advantage comes from how you adapt, communicate and refocus before uncertainty turns into instability.
AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale. The New York-based startup has had some success following its pre-seed funding […]
Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a…
TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized
Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.