Six years ago, I asked Sam Altman at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco how OpenAI, with its complicated corporate structure, would make money. He said that someday, he’d ask the AI. When everyone snickered, he added, “You can laugh.…
In its latest retreat from India’s crowded online retail market, the Walmart-backed fintech giant PhonePe has wound down its Pincode e-commerce app. The company will now shift the business toward providing B2B services for offline merchants. On Thursday, PhonePe founder…
The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against the AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday, alleging copyright infringement. The suit was filed in a federal court in New York. According to the complaint, the Tribune’s lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October to…
Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform. Their model allows their community to donate to a variety of organizations and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build…
Apple’s executive shake-up continues. Days after announcing the departure of AI chief John Giannandrea and the loss of design executive Alan Dye to Meta, the iPhone maker shared the news of two more executive retirements. Kate Adams, who has served…
Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and manage human experts for training data, started the year with…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked Waymo for more information about its self-driving system and operations. This request follows reports from the Austin School District that Waymo’s robotaxis illegally passed school buses 19 times this year. In a…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated in a social media post on Thursday that owners can text and drive with the latest version of the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software. This claim comes despite texting while driving being illegal in most…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his perspective on whether the AI industry is in a bubble during The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. He declined to give a simple yes-or-no answer, describing the situation as complex, and instead…
California regulators have released revised rules that would allow companies to test and eventually deploy self-driving trucks on public highways. The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates autonomous vehicles in the state, opened a 15-day comment period…
