Petco confirms security lapse exposed customers’ personal data

Petco, a major provider of pet products and services, disclosed a data breach in a filing with California’s attorney general on Wednesday. The company states the incident involves the personal information of its customers. A sample notification letter published by…

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something stranger

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.…

Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

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…

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…