‘That Job Was Hell’: 7 Founders Share Their Worst Boss Horror Stories, and What They Learned From the Lunatics

February 13, 2026

ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.

There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…

October 25, 2023

These entrepreneurs lived through bad boss nightmares, but they got the upper hand in the end.

AI titans throw a (tiny) bone to AI safety researchers

October 25, 2023

The Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on studying “frontier” AI models along the lines of GPT-4 and ChatGPT, today announced that it’ll pledge $10 million toward a new fund to advance research on tools for “testing and evaluating the most capable AI models.” The fund, says the Frontier Model Forum — whose members […]

Viso eyes no-code for the future of computer vision and scores funding to scale

October 25, 2023

Computer vision has become commonplace across innumerable industries, but the methods of creating and controlling these visual AI models aren’t so easy. Viso is building a low/no-code end-to-end platform that lets companies roll their own computer vision stack, and they just pulled in $9M to scale up. There are tons of computer vision models and […]

Chkk helps keep complex Kubernetes environments up and running

October 25, 2023

As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission critical workloads, keeping clusters up and running has become increasingly important for DevOps teams. Chkk, an early stage startup, launched out of stealth today with a solution that looks for vulnerabilities that could take down a cluster and warns administrators before it happens. It’s not only […]

As publishers block AI web crawlers, Direqt is building AI chatbots for the media industry

October 25, 2023

A number of news and media publishers are already blocking AI web crawlers from accessing their sites, worried about the impact on traffic when all their work is swept up into AI chatbot experiences. However, a startup called Direqt believes publishers should embrace AI chatbots — just on their own terms. The company, which has […]

Amazon’s eero Max 7 mesh wifi router offers amazing speeds and few (if any) compromises

October 25, 2023

Amazon’s eero acquisition continues to bear fruit, and the latest off the vine is the eero Max 7, by far the company’s most advanced router yet, and the most capable when it comes to input and output options, too. The Max 7 supports Wifi 7, the cutting edge in wifi standards that’s still relatively hard […]

Google announces tools to help users fact check images

October 25, 2023

The use of context images and videos on social media has led to dangerous misinformation distribution. Google is announcing to provide more contextual information about an image to prevent false information from spreading. The new set of tools includes viewing an image’s history, metadata, and context users used it with on different sites. Google announced […]

ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.