This AI Startup Spent $0 On Marketing. Its Revenue Just Hit $200 Million in March.
In just two months, the AI startup Anysphere’s revenue has doubled, and its focus has remained on individual subscribers, not enterprises.
The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’
While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]
How to Use Storytelling to Elevate Your B2B Marketing and Influence Buying Decisions
Here’s how to craft stories that make buyers choose you over competitors.
‘In Tough Times We Do Really Well’: Sam’s Club Is Planning a Massive Expansion and Remodeling All of Its Stores
On Wednesday, at the 42-year-old company’s investor day, Sam’s Club CEO Chris Nicholas said the warehouse chain is planning to open 15 clubs per year, indefinitely.
Tariffs are bad news for batteries
Update: Since this story was first published in The Spark, our weekly climate newsletter, the White House announced that most reciprocal tariffs would be paused for 90 days. That pause does not apply to China, which will see an increased tariff rate of 125%. Today, new tariffs go into effect for goods imported into the…
Ilya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI startup’s research
OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is using Google Cloud’s TPU chips to power its AI research, part of a new partnership the companies announced on Wednesday in a press release. Google Cloud says SSI is using TPUs to “accelerate its research and development efforts toward building […]
Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, judge rules
The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the judge overseeing the case. After evaluating a number of limited objections to the sale, Judge Brendan Shannon said in a hearing Wednesday he believes the process was fair, and that no one else but Canoo CEO Anthony Aquila made […]
Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware
The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.
How Entrepreneurs Can Tap Into What Really Drives the Ultra-Wealthy and Build a Brand They Can’t Resist
Understand the psychology behind luxury purchases.
More good news for New York startups: Lerer Hippeau raised another $200M
New York’s A-list venture capital seed fund, Lerer Hippeau, announced it closed a ninth $200 million fund on Wednesday. That’s a step up from its eighth fund, which closed at $140 million, it said. With the new fund, Lerer Hippeau has $1.4 billion of assets under management. Since its inception in 2010, Lerer Hippeau has […]
OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks
OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program. Called the OpenAI Pioneers Program, the effort will focus on creating evaluations for AI models that “set the bar for what good looks like,” as OpenAI phrased it in a blog post. “As the pace […]