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Tech Investors Will Be Sweating the Dog Days of Summer in More Ways Than One
Plus, the tawdry saga of the Sam Altman movie & Meta makes a cloud play
 • Jonathan Weber and Tom Dotan
Hollywood's AI Anxiety on Full Display as Google's A24 Investment Draws Fire
The film purists' pushback against AI is understandable but misplaced
 • Tom Dotan
9 Videos From CVAI London: Cohere's Aidan Gomez, Index Ventures' Danny Rimer, Recursive's Josh Tobin & More
Watch the on-stage talks from our latest Cerebral Valley AI Summit
 • Madeline Renbarger
CVAI London: European Democracies on Alert, Bubble Worries, Anthropic Bullishness, Agents & Compute Shortages
Notes from talks with Cohere's Aidan Gomez, Alphabet's R. Martin Chavez, Recursive's Josh Tobin, Index's Danny Rimer, Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru & More
 • Eric Newcomer and Madeline Renbarger
Hot AI Summer: What the Latest Talent Moves Mean in the Great Foundation Model Race
Seminal names including Andrej Karpathy, Noam Shazeer, John Jumper & Barret Zoph have changed horses at a key juncture. Here’s what insiders say is…
 • Tom Dotan
Cursor Investors Set for Epic Payout from Musk's Juggernaut. They Still Have to Stomach a Ride.
Plus, Gavin Newsom takes a pro-tech stance on data centers & starts to emerge as a pragmatist
 • Jonathan Weber and Madeline Renbarger
One Week Until the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in London! See the Speaker & Discussion Leader Lineup
Speakers from OpenAI, Alphabet, Gradium, Cohere & more will hit the stage in London on June 24
 • Madeline Renbarger and Eric Newcomer
Soaring Costs Prompt Fresh Interest in Open Source AI. Chinese Firms Are Way Ahead.
Investors tout a 'rebel alliance' of open-source startups across the AI stack
 • Tom Dotan
DATABRICKS CEO ALI GHODSI: A Costly AI Training Foray, Sidestepping the Model Wars & the Push to Kill Tokenmaxxing Bloat
Databricks releases products to compete with ClickHouse, Splunk & Oracle
 • Eric Newcomer
David Sacks' Warning About Anthropic Regulatory Pleas Misses the Mark & SpaceX Asks Investors to Dream Big in Mega IPO
Plus, pressure on token prices, a Databricks round in the works & more
 • Eric Newcomer and Tom Dotan
VC Twitter Airs its Dirty Laundry: Our Summary of the Beefs, Bits & Quotes
From Vinod Khosla to Sequoia Capital, founders posted through their grievances
 • Madeline Renbarger
AI Pushes Markets into Uncharted Territory as SpaceX & Google Seek $160 Billion Combined with OpenAI & Anthropic in the Wings
Plus, Gigascale raises a climate-focused hardware fund & VC firms start seeing better TVPI
 • Jonathan Weber and Madeline Renbarger
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