‘It’s Okay Not to be Okay’: How to Face the Emotional Side of Entrepreneurship
Dr. Drew Pinsky and serial investor Kim Perell help a small business owner cope with the stress of a fire that almost destroyed her company.
From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems
The previous article in this series, “Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary,” focused on the first AI-orchestrated espionage campaign and the failure of prompt-level control. This article is the prescription. The question every CEO is now getting from their board is some version of: What do we do about agent risk? Across…
Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.
This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents
Startup Mixus has built an AI agent platform that not only keeps humans in the workflow, but also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack.
Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup
RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here’s the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund’s money.
Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B
DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection.
This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells
A beam of energy hit the slab of rock, which quickly began to glow. Pieces cracked off, sparks ricocheted, and dust whirled around under a blast of air. From inside a modified trailer, I peeked through the window as a millimeter-wave drilling rig attached to an unassuming box truck melted a hole into a piece…
Five things you need to know about AI right now
Last month I gave a talk at SXSW London called “Five things you need to know about AI”—my personal picks for the five most important ideas in AI right now. I aimed the talk at a general audience, and it serves as a quick tour of how I’m thinking about AI in 2025. I’m sharing…
Latent Labs launches web-based AI model to democratize protein design
The company claims that its model achieved state of the art on specific metrics.
Instead of selling to Meta, AI chip startup FuriosaAI signed a huge customer
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s recently unveiled EXAONE platform. RNGD is optimized for running large language models (LLMs) and just last week, the Korean tech giant LG unveiled its next-generation hybrid AI model EXAONE 4.0. The collaboration […]
Tesla’s retro-futuristic diner officially opens as Elon Musk hints at more locations
The Tesla Diner & Drive-In officially opened Monday and it seems Elon Musk is planning for more.