Is the ‘Great Resignation’ officially over?
Quick Hits
AZ to SF: Waymo expands in Bay Area.
Claude climbs: Anthropic tops AI chart .
Clouds in Spain: Oracle invests $1B.
Creative concern: Adobe shifts AI policy.
Czech mate: Onsemi invests $2B.
Data defense: Reddit scraps scraping.
Geoffrey bot: AI generates Toys R Us ad.
Hunting unicorns: Accel scouts in rural India .
Legal tunes: Labels sue AI startups .
Meta moves: India gets (English-only) AI.
Micro VC: Indian VCs launch new fund .
No return: Starliner stranded in space.
SaaS to VC: Zendesk launches AI fund .
Seller Sidekick: Shopify unveils automation.
Smart shopping: Target tests in-store AI.
Soft claim: CEO predicts ASI in a decade.
Tesla trims: Musk slashes 14% of jobs.
Exec: AI will replace ‘unnecessary’ creative jobs
OpenAI’s CTO drew criticism by suggesting AI will eliminate creative jobs that "shouldn't have been there in the first place."
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Zig nets six-figure salaries
Zig surpassed Clojure as the highest paying programming language for developers, netting $100k+ salaries. Startups look far and wide for talent versed in a language fewer than 1% of programmers know.
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Teens raise $500k for AI APIs
High school besties from Colorado are busy launching APIGen , a platform for building custom APIs from natural language prompts, in their final summer before college.
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Your robot mechanic awaits
California startup Kinetic Automation builds robot mechanics to diagnose and fix complex EV electronics—a service not typically available at your local body shop.
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Indian startup delivers VC excitement
American investors, including a former YC partner, are fawning over Indian delivery company Zepto , causing its valuation to jump over $1B in one week.
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VCs back Big Tech credentials
Six out of the 10 top funded AI companies in Europe and Israel are led by Big Tech alumni, according to Accel .
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Poll of the week
Recently funded companies
Denver-based INVI MindHealth Raises $1.5M for Mental Health Tech
Long Beach, Calif.-based ExLabs Raises $1.9M to Accelerate ACQR Development
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Upword Raises $3M for Knowledge Management
NYC’s TestParty Raises $4M to Automate Coding for Accessible Websites
Singapore-based SoSoValue Raises $4.15M for Crypto Financial Research
NYC-based Wilya Raises $4M for HR Skills Operating System
Bay Area’s Inventive Raises $6.5M to Embed AI in SaaS
NYC-based Substrate Raises $8M Seed for AI Infrastructure
Bengaluru-based Cloudphysician Raises $10.5M for AI Healthcare
Warsaw-based CampusAI Raises $10M in for AI Learning Skills
India's Zyod Raises $18M for Fashion Manufacturing
NYC-based Nomad Health Raises $22M for Healthcare Jobs Marketplace
Brussels-based TechWolf Raises $43M for AI Powered Internal Recruiting
Switzerland's Neustark Secures $69M to Lock Carbon in Concrete
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Podcasts of the Week
HR Works Podcast: Hot Takes & HR Hacks Live from SHRM Chicago 2024 (HR Works: The Podcast for Human Resources )
#90 InHeirit | Coaching an Early-Stage Startup towards Launching (Midstage Startup Momentum )
S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative (Code Story )
#188 - Jessy Wu (Partner - Afterwork VC) on brand, storytelling and community powered VC (The Startup Playbook Podcast )
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