Yeah, but is that venture backable?

August 2, 2023
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest, think about their work and unpack the rest. This week we had Sara Mauskopf […]

Inworld, a generative AI platform for creating NPCs, lands fresh investment

August 2, 2023
For a recovering gamer like me, one of the most exciting applications of generative AI is dynamic dialogue. I’m not suggesting AI replace writers — goodness forbid. But as anyone who’s sunk hundreds of hours into an RPG can tell you, scripted NPC interactions get old fast. There’s a few startups prototyping AI tech to […]

Reflex open source tool helps turn Python code into web apps

August 2, 2023
Python enjoys great popularity with developers, which is why the founders of Reflex chose it as the basis for their low-code web app development platform. The startup, formerly known as Pynecone, wants to straddle the line between making it easy to build an app, while giving enough flexibility to customize when needed. Today, the company […]

US, Norway say hackers have been exploiting Ivanti zero-day since April

August 2, 2023
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti’s mobile endpoint management software undetected for at least three months, U.S. and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies have warned. It was confirmed last week that hackers had compromised multiple Norwegian government agencies by exploiting a previously undiscovered vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM; formerly MobileIron Core), software that is […]

Google pulls its AI Test Kitchen app from Play Store and App Store

August 2, 2023
Google has pulled its AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store and the App Store to focus solely on the web platform. The company launched the AI Test Kitchen experience last year to let users interact with projects powered by different AI models such as LaMDA 2. The first set of experiments included the […]