Celebrity Co-Founders Not Required: Building Influence from Scratch

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…

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR

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…

Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin

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…

California’s ban on self-driving trucks could soon be over

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…

Legal AI startup Harvey confirms $8B valuation

On Thursday, Harvey confirmed it closed a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. This investment values the legal AI startup at $8 billion, following earlier reports of the funding in October. The startup raised $160 million in this…