Asking the right dumb questions You’ll have to forgive the truncated newsletter this week. Turns out I brought more back from Chicago than a couple of robot stress balls (the one piece…
Category: AI
Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies
Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies Being an artificial intelligence company has become the soup du jour of startup land. Companies are scrambling to either incorporate AI…
Oscilar emerges from stealth to fight transactions fraud with AI
Oscilar emerges from stealth to fight transactions fraud with AI Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede today announced a new fintech company, Oscilar, that’s developing an “AI-driven” platform to help financial institutions protect online…
Fixie wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models
Fixie wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models Yet another startup hoping to cash in on the generative AI craze has secured an eye-popping tranche…
DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M
DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey…
Parloa raises $21M to add a little automation to contact centers
Parloa raises $21M to add a little automation to contact centers It’s estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers around the world. To cut costs, in…
That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat
That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat Microsoft is “exploring” putting ads in the responses given by Bing Chat, its new search agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. While these…
Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information
Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might…
From Balenciaga Pope to the Great Cascadia Earthquake, everything is ‘Goncharov’
From Balenciaga Pope to the Great Cascadia Earthquake, everything is ‘Goncharov’ Last fall, Tumblr users raved about Martin Scorcese’s 1973 film “Goncharov,” starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. They hailed the…
AI’s moral compass with a jack of all trades
AI’s moral compass with a jack of all trades Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines….