He hacked Teslas for Elon Musk. Now he’s launching a $100 million AI cyber agent
Startup Pi counts xAI as one of its first customers, as its AI agent looks to fix security vulnerabilities for the world’s premier labs.
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‘Talent will move elsewhere’: Why this Linktree co-founder is rethinking Australia
Alex Zaccaria, the founder of unicorn Linktree, is among the Australian founders aggrieved by proposed changes to the capital gains rate. He believes the Government is well intentioned, but that the result will be more and more Australian startups shifting their centre of gravity to the US.
Diraq strikes $53m agreement with US Government – and is eyeing up to $420m more
The quantum computing startup will receive up to $53 million to establish a supply chain in the US. Later this year it hopes to progress through a US Defence initiative that could score it an even bigger windfall. Andrew Dzurak first received grant funding from the US Government when he was a quantum academic in […]
‘Banana republic territory’: Founder says CGT changes will leave Aussie startups ‘captive’
Michael Biercuk was one of many startup founders who joined Allegra Spender’s roundtable on capital gains tax reform.
Inside Scale AI’s business after Meta’s bombshell $14 billion deal
How Scale AI Is Adapting Post Meta Deal And Founder’s Departure
Former OpenAI researcher to raise $500 million for AI science startup
Periodic Labs, which plans to push breakthroughs in physics and chemistry using artificial intelligence, has seen its valuation jump sixfold in just eight months.
This $1.3 billion AI startup’s software watches employees as they work
Cofounded in 2019 by former consultant Jennifer Smith, Scribe’s software helps hundreds of thousands of companies record what their employees do so AI agents can take over repetitive tasks in the future.
These 26-year-old founders quit their jobs and built a $200 million AI cyber startup
AI is writing more code than humans—and much of it isn’t secure. Corridor’s founders think they’ve found a way to catch the mistakes before attackers do.
Today’s founder – she’s never coded but she’s building a business with AI
For years, Australia’s startup ecosystem has wrestled with a stubborn reality: if you weren’t technical, your odds of founding and funding a venture dropped dramatically. And because computer science classrooms have long skewed male, that technical barrier is one major aspect reinforcing the gender funding gap.
Ex-top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid
Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power to the grid more efficiently.