Disney 🥂 Epic Games for $1.5B, Apple Vision Pro 📈, Can US-China 🤝 on AI?
Featured Guests: Richard Dulude, co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC | Derek Xiao, investor, Menlo Ventures
Disney invests $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, Apple’s Vision Pro, its first new product in nearly a decade, is hated by social media comment sections but loved by tech reviewers, and will China and the US find a way to cooperate regarding AI?
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US Senators Berate Zuckerberg, Startup Diversity Report, Vertical AI Surging
Featured Guests: Joey Mak, CEO, Chicago:Blend | Parker McKee, principal, Pillar VC
The CEOs of Meta, Tik Tok, and X face the music during a spirited US Senate hearing, Chicago emerges as one of the most diverse venture markets, and vertical AI applications may be the hottest investment of 2024.
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Featured Guests: Allison Byers, founder & CEO, Scroobious | Paul Le Floch, co-founder & CEO, Axoft | Amy Wu, partner, Menlo Ventures
The techno-optimist movement is building momentum (and political influence), Elon Musk announces that Neuralink has performed its first successful human surgery, and venture capitalists are sitting on over $300 billion dollars of dry powder.
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FTC v. Big Tech, Innovation Endeavors $630M Fund, TechCrunch Layoffs
Featured Guests: Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, partner, Innovation Endeavors | Will Robbins, general partner, Contrary
The FTC has antitrust concerns about Big Tech again, this time due to their partnerships with AI startups, Innovation Endeavors Raises a whopping $630 million dollar fund, and TechCrunch joins the growing list of news companies laying off employees.
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Fake Biden Robocall, Brex Cuts 20% of Staff, AI Industrial Complex
Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem, founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management.
New Hampshire residents receive a deepfaked phone call impersonating president Biden right before the primary vote Tuesday, Silicon Valley darling Brex cuts 20% of its staff, and will the US’s efforts to build AI infrastructure lead to an “AI Industrial Complex?”
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