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STARTUPS

Sep 4, 2024

Fastest-selling video game Black Myth: Wukong’s success may offer insights into investments in AI startups

Aaron Infante

The meteoric rise of Black Myth: Wukong as the current world’s fastest-selling video game and how this phenomenon echoes the rapid success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT offers a compelling case for how venture

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STARTUPS

Sep 2, 2024

Palantir eyes support for defense tech startups with CTO’s First Breakfast project

Aaron Infante

Software company Palantir is keen to become more involved in the booming defense tech industry—with its chief technology officer (CTO), Shyam Sankar, working to support fellow startups in ensuring Western security. In an August

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STARTUPS

Sep 2, 2024

AI tech startup Lovo faces lawsuit versus voice-over artists for unlicensed voice cloning

Aaron Infante

Voice-over performers Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage filed a class-action lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-speech platform Lovo, alleging that their voices were cloned under false pretenses. The couple discovered

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STARTUPS

Aug 20, 2024

Startup fintech PayZen secures $232 million to revolutionize healthcare affordability with AI

Michael Anthony Bitoon

San Francisco-based fintech startup PayZen just announced a successful Series B funding round, raising $232 million to expand its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare affordability platform. Series B funding is a second major investment

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STARTUPS

Aug 7, 2024

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman resigns, joins rival startup Anthropic

Aaron Infante

Personnel changes continue at artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI as co-founder John Schulman announced on August 5 that he has left the company for competitor Anthropic. “I've made the difficult decision to leave

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STARTUPS

Jul 11, 2024

AI brain for all robot types now underway, startup developers land $300 million in funds

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Purpose-built robots, designed to perform only specific tasks, are facing extinction as a general-purpose brain for androids is on the way courtesy of Skild AI, which has secured $300 million in funding. The

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