The Australian influencer couple seeking 7-figure cheque to turn AI ‘pink’
High-school-sweethearts-turned-startup-founders Scarlett Frazer and Iestyn Thomas are headed to Silicon Valley to raise funds in a bid to prove the future of AI is feminine.
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This startup is racing Duolingo to replace human language tutors with AI
Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with better-known rivals like Duolingo.
The golden rule driving Nick Mowbray’s multibillion-dollar Zuru empire
Nick Mowbray still describes ZURU’s early years in three words: eat, survive, repeat.
Why Sam Altman won’t be on the hook for OpenAI’s massive spending spree
OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? It won’t be Altman.
Threads passes X in key monthly metric for first time in Zuckerberg vs. Musk battle
Threads surpassed X in daily active users on mobile devices worldwide for the first time by a razor-thin margin late September, though now Threads has since extended its lead by millions of users.
The world’s youngest self-made billionaires are a trio of 22-year-old AI founders
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.
Meta laying off about 600 staff at AI Superintelligence Labs—Here’s what’s impacted
The layoffs will reportedly not impact the company’s division developing next-generation AI models.
Australian start-up funding rebounds to over $1 billion across Q3
Despite a continued drought of mega-deals, Australia’s venture funding climbed back to the billion-dollar mark in Q3, driven by a surge in accelerator activity and heightened investor appetite for deep-tech and AI-focused companies.
Why Australia must build its own GenAI storytelling culture
When Sundance vaulted indie filmmakers into the spotlight in the late 1980s, it reshaped cinema and the business around it.
AMD shares surge 30% after multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI
OpenAI has agreed to purchase and deploy 6 gigawatt worth of AMD’s AI chips.