CM Weekly: AI Spend, Google Discovery, Black Hat Takeaways

My partner at Race Capital, Edith Yeung, is hosting an event focused on government / defense tech in San Francisco along with Microsoft, Intel, Google, and MLtwist.?

More info on the event here, would be useful for any founders targeting government sales, founders in the American dynamism fields, or people curious on how the U.S. government is engaging with startups.?

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

??? Interesting Reads

• Uber, the transportation company, is now doing $1B in advertising sales (primarily ads while requesting, waiting for, and taking a ride.
• Journalists, developers, and marketers are the highest users of ChatGPT compared to other roles
• Humane, the AI pin, did $9M and sales (8,000 units) and of that consumers have returned 1,000 units.?
• Here’s a copy of all the discovery evidence in the US vs Google antitrust case. A lot of interesting emails in there including how Satya Nadella of Microsoft was trying to supplant Google’s relationship as the exclusive search provider on Apple.
• Takeaways from the Black Hat security conference
• An analysis of business credit card spend on AI vendors. The top AI vendors are OpenAI, Anthropic, MidJorney, Otter, etc.?

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