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Why January Ventures is funding underrepresented AI founders

2 months 3 weeks ago

While everyone’s chasing the next AI infrastructure play in San Francisco, some of the most defensible AI companies are being built by founders with deep expertise in legacy industries — and they’re not getting funded. January Ventures aims to fill that gap, writing pre-seed checks for underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain with […]

Morgan Little, Maggie Nye

In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

2 months 3 weeks ago

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.

Michael Calore, Caroline Haskins, Steven Levy

Unity on AI, new tools, and recovering from the Runtime Fee

2 months 3 weeks ago

To use some technical business parlance, Unity has had an absolutely shocking few years. After establishing itself as the near-de facto game engine for indie and mid-tier developers in the 2010s, it was already burning goodwill with misjudged platform development before jumping to outright pariah status on the back of a proposed Runtime Fee in September 2023. This would have charged developers every time someone installed their game, once certain thresholds were met.

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Alex Forbes-Calvin