Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
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Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline

Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...

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Expedia Opens San Jose AI Hub to Recruit From Big Tech's Backyard
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Expedia Opens San Jose AI Hub to Recruit From Big Tech's Backyard

Expedia has opened a San Jose engineering hub minutes from Google’s headquarters and is courting Big Tech AI specialists...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans

Chesky says AI's poor public image is partly a product problem: too many enterprise tools, too few things ordinary peopl...

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Monashees Opens San Francisco Office to Bridge LatAm Startups and AI Gold Rush
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Monashees Opens San Francisco Office to Bridge LatAm Startups and AI Gold Rush

Latin American VC pioneer Monashees is planting a flag in Silicon Valley, aiming to connect LatAm founders with the AI f...

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Silicon Valley's AI Data Startups Are Fueling China's AI Ambitions, Exposing a $500M Blind Spot
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Silicon Valley's AI Data Startups Are Fueling China's AI Ambitions, Exposing a $500M Blind Spot

An investigation reveals top US data-labeling firms like Surge AI and Mercor are selling the same training data used by ...

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Michał Adamkiewicz’s WindBorne Outpaces NOAA with AI Weather Balloons — and Wants to Reshape Polish Innovation
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Michał Adamkiewicz’s WindBorne Outpaces NOAA with AI Weather Balloons — and Wants to Reshape Polish Innovation

Michał Adamkiewicz, son of Adamed’s founders, turned a Stanford curiosity project into WindBorne, a balloon-based weathe...

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Silicon Valley Divided on Restricting Chinese Open-Source AI Access
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Silicon Valley Divided on Restricting Chinese Open-Source AI Access

A clash between industry leaders pushes Washington toward targeted regulation of Chinese AI, reshaping the global techno...

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