Runway started by supporting filmmakers. Now they are trying to beat Google with AI.
AI video generation startup Runway doesn’t have a typical Silicon Valley pedigree. There are no Stanford University founders, no former Google founders, no nine-figure seed rounds that bought time by ignoring revenue. The three founders (two from Chile and one from Greece) met at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and founded the […]
GoPro is also shifting its focus to defense.
Want to make money? Start building your data center. Alternatively, you can build batteries to power data centers. Or: Focus on defense. This is not financial advice, but it certainly seems to be appealing to public markets and retail investors these days. Ford’s nascent energy storage business, which is a fraction of Tesla’s size and […]
Lovable just helped a company bring vibecoding to their hardware
Lovable, an AI-powered app building platform, has helped Atech, a Danish hardware startup that wants to bring “vibe coding” to the hardware creation process. Lovable was participating in an $800,000 pre-seed round that also included participation from a16z’s Scout Fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers. In a chat with TechCrunch, Gustav Hugod, head of […]
Cerebras IPO brings billions to Benchmark, but VC Eric Vishlier barely attended the meeting
Cerebra Systems’ IPO on Thursday was a huge success, netting the company, its founders and key investors billions of dollars in profits. Among the big winners is major shareholder Benchmark, which owns 9.5% of the company’s stock. Eric Vishlier, one of the company’s general partners, has been on Cerebras’ board since the AI chip maker […]
What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher has long been a leading figure in AI, best known for founding early chatbot startup You.com and for his earlier work at ImageNet. He now joins the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding on Wednesday. Socher joins […]
OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple. This isn’t the first time my partner has been burned.
OpenAI is so dissatisfied with Apple over its ChatGPT integration that it didn’t achieve the subscriber numbers and visibility Apple had hoped for, that the company is now actively considering legal action against the iPhone maker, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has hired an outside […]
Clawdmeter turns your Clawd code usage statistics into a small desktop dashboard
Silicon Valley’s TokenMax era has its own hardware. A new open-source project displays usage statistics for Claude code in a small desktop dashboard, allowing AI power users to monitor usage. Sure, you can track Clawd code usage directly in your device using commands and other external tools and apps, but it’s not quite as fun […]
YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of short videos on TV every month
Short-form video is a format built for mobile. These vertical videos are designed to fit the shape of your smartphone. But according to YouTube, this type of content has become extremely popular on the big screen. Although it seems counterintuitive, it’s hard to argue with this data. YouTube viewers watch more than 2 billion hours […]
Khosla Ventures bets $10 million on Ian Crosby, whose first startup Bench went bankrupt
Ian Crosbie’s previous startup, Bench Accounting, which famously closed in 2024 before being acquired for scrap, is taking on a new challenge: building a business by automating the arduous task of bookkeeping. His new startup, Synthetic, aims to build a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper that can generate accrual-based financials without direct human involvement. Although the […]
How to turn off Instagram’s new Instant feature and undo photos you accidentally shared
Yesterday, Instagram globally released a new feature called “Instant” designed to share authentic, disappearing photos. The Meta-owned social network is touting Instant as a new format for sharing real-life moments, but many users, especially those who accidentally sent images to others without fully understanding how the feature works, are looking for ways to turn off […]