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Quick Hits
AZ to SF: Waymo expands in Bay Area.
Claude climbs: Anthropic tops AI chart.
Clouds in Spain: Oracle invests $1B.
Creative concern: Adobe shifts AI policy.
Czech mate: Onsemi invests $2B.
Data defense: Reddit scraps scraping.
Geoffrey bot: AI generates Toys R Us ad.
Hunting unicorns: Accel scouts in rural India.
Legal tunes: Labels sue AI startups.
Meta moves: India gets (English-only) AI.
Micro VC: Indian VCs launch new fund.
No return: Starliner stranded in space.
SaaS to VC: Zendesk launches AI fund.
Seller Sidekick: Shopify unveils automation.
Smart shopping: Target tests in-store AI.
Soft claim: CEO predicts ASI in a decade.
Tesla trims: Musk slashes 14% of jobs.
Trending Startups
Exec: AI will replace ‘unnecessary’ creative jobs
OpenAI’s CTO drew criticism by suggesting AI will eliminate creative jobs that "shouldn't have been there in the first place."
Zig nets six-figure salaries
Zig surpassed Clojure as the highest paying programming language for developers, netting $100k+ salaries. Startups look far and wide for talent versed in a language fewer than 1% of programmers know.
Teens raise $500k for AI APIs
High school besties from Colorado are busy launching APIGen, a platform for building custom APIs from natural language prompts, in their final summer before college.
Your robot mechanic awaits
California startup Kinetic Automation builds robot mechanics to diagnose and fix complex EV electronics—a service not typically available at your local body shop.
Indian startup delivers VC excitement
American investors, including a former YC partner, are fawning over Indian delivery company Zepto, causing its valuation to jump over $1B in one week.
VCs back Big Tech credentials
Six out of the 10 top funded AI companies in Europe and Israel are led by Big Tech alumni, according to Accel.
Recently Funded
- Denver-based INVI MindHealth Raises $1.5M for Mental Health Tech
- Long Beach, Calif.-based ExLabs Raises $1.9M to Accelerate ACQR Development
- Santa Monica, Calif.-based Upword Raises $3M for Knowledge Management
- NYC’s TestParty Raises $4M to Automate Coding for Accessible Websites
- Singapore-based SoSoValue Raises $4.15M for Crypto Financial Research
- NYC-based Wilya Raises $4M for HR Skills Operating System
- Bay Area’s Inventive Raises $6.5M to Embed AI in SaaS
- NYC-based Substrate Raises $8M Seed for AI Infrastructure
- Bengaluru-based Cloudphysician Raises $10.5M for AI Healthcare
- Warsaw-based CampusAI Raises $10M in for AI Learning Skills
- India's Zyod Raises $18M for Fashion Manufacturing
- NYC-based Nomad Health Raises $22M for Healthcare Jobs Marketplace
- Brussels-based TechWolf Raises $43M for AI Powered Internal Recruiting
- Switzerland's Neustark Secures $69M to Lock Carbon in Concrete
Weekly Pulse
Post of the Week
What We’re Reading
Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain (Wired)
Why artists are becoming less scared of AI (MIT)
AI killed the Radio Star (Steve Sammartino)
Bosses Are Trying to Learn Exactly What AI Can Do (WSJ)
The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants (NYT)
"I" vs "We" When Speaking as a Founder (David Cummings)
Poll of the Week
Podcasts of the Week
HR Works Podcast: Hot Takes & HR Hacks Live from SHRM Chicago 2024 (HR Works: The Podcast for Human Resources)
InHeirit | Coaching an Early-Stage Startup towards Launching (Midstage Startup Momentum)
S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative (Code Story)
Jessy Wu (Partner - Afterwork VC) on brand, storytelling and community powered VC (The Startup Playbook Podcast)
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