The 20VC Podcast with @HarryStebbings should be in your regular rotation if you’re into tech, investing and / or AI. I learn a ton from every episode. This one with @mikeyk was exceptional. He was very open about processes, decisions, challenges at Anthropic.
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Digg Relaunches with AI-Powered Community Platform
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Big news for @digg
, which is readying for a relaunch thanks to being bought back Digg founder @kevinrose and @alexisohanian
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HeyGen Releases 100+ New UGC AI Avatars for Marketers
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I’ve been a fan of @HeyGen_official for a while but this is getting ridiculous.
— Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon) 5 mars 2025
HeyGen just released 100+ new UGC AI avatars.
Marketers and creators can make unlimited ad variations on script, speaker, voice, setting, backdrop, etc.
4 wild examples: pic.twitter.com/8qQjK1RKLaI’ve been a fan of @HeyGen_official for a while but this is getting ridiculous. HeyGen just released 100+ new UGC AI avatars. Marketers and creators can make unlimited ad variations on script, speaker, voice, setting, backdrop, etc. 4 wild examples:
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Coreweave acquires Weights and Biases ahead of IPO
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IPO-bound Coreweave announced the acquisition of AI developer platform Weights and Biases
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 5 mars 2025
The company will integrate Weights and Biases' capabilities into its cloud infra platform
It supplies cloud GPUs to companies like Meta and Microsoftpic.twitter.com/Ttq15jCy5sIPO-bound Coreweave announced the acquisition of AI developer platform Weights and Biases The company will integrate Weights and Biases' capabilities into its cloud infra platform It supplies cloud GPUs to companies like Meta and Microsoft
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Cortical Labs Launches CL1 Synthetic Biological Intelligence System
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Cortical Labs launched CL1—the world's first commercial “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” system
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 5 mars 2025
It combines living brain cells with silicon hardware to outperform SOTA models (DQN, PPO) with just 5 min of gameplay
A big shift in how we perceive AI!pic.twitter.com/DBTuxBggIgCortical Labs launched CL1—the world's first commercial “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” system It combines living brain cells with silicon hardware to outperform SOTA models (DQN, PPO) with just 5 min of gameplay A big shift in how we perceive AI!
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Win $1,000 Building Your Next App on Replit
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72-Hour Buildathon: 3 MVPs Win $500 Compute Credits
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72 hours. 3 MVPs. 1 epic buildathon 🏆
— SambaNova (@SambaNovaAI) 4 mars 2025
We're teaming up with @BuildInception & HumanX for a buildathon, where startups have 72 hours to prototype & develop their apps.
The top 3 win $500 in compute credits 🦾 LET'S GO!72 hours. 3 MVPs. 1 epic buildathon We're teaming up with @BuildInception & HumanX for a buildathon, where startups have 72 hours to prototype & develop their apps. The top 3 win $500 in compute credits LET'S GO!
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Snorkel AI Named Forbes Best Startup Employer 2025
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@Forbes named Snorkel AI one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2025! AI innovation starts with people—our team, customers & AI community. Huge thanks to Forbes, Statista, our customers & team for making this possible! https://
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Harrison Chase and Waseem Alshikh discuss evaluating scaling agents
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Fireside Chat in SF with Harrison Chase (Co-Founder & CEO at LangChain) and Waseem Alshikh (Co-Founder & CTO at Writer) on Evaluating and Scaling Agents Join us for an exciting evening meetup in San Francisco hosted at Susa Ventures! Waseem and Harrison will take you
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Media Founders Strategy Differs Dramatically From Startup Advice
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media is SO different from startups it's such a common lesson learned for media founders that the traditional advice to focus on one thing a doesn't really apply what's funny is the best media founders often want to do tons of different things, but then ignore their instincts
