He Got Hooked on SweatHouz as a Customer. Now He’s CEO of More Than 100 Studios.
Nico Varano used to evaluate businesses for a living. Then a boxing injury led him into SweatHouz’s private suites — he never left.
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,…
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
Unicorn Stories Sell the Myth of Overnight Success — But Here Are the 5 Truths They Leave Out
A serial investor breaks down five hard truths about entrepreneurship that unicorn headlines conveniently leave out, from boring early momentum to the personal toll no one talks about.
“I’m Not a Big Company CEO.” A Billion-Dollar Founder’s Confession — and What It Reveals About Startup Success
One founder’s candid confession over coffee reveals a truth most startup advice ignores: success doesn’t end the hard part of building a company — it changes it.
How an Invisible Revenue Leak Is Costing Founders Millions
Your pipeline looks healthy. Your dashboard says marketing is winning. But revenue is still stuck. The hidden leak isn’t a lack of demand — it’s the gap between sales and marketing.
Why Founders Need a New Operating System to Lead Through AI Disruption
As AI reshapes business, founders who combine clear thinking, emotional resilience and decisive leadership — not just intelligence — will be best positioned to scale.
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world’s most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.
Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.
Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
While everyone in AI is chasing “superintelligence.” Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.