I left Amazon and became an angel investor. Mentoring startups for 6 years made me a better founder.

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William Tunstall-Pedoe
William Tunstall-Pedoe became an angel investor after leaving Amazon.

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Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry

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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
OpenAI and Anthropic release new AI models on the same day amid an escalating rivalry.

Reuters

Hollywood superagent and investor Michael Ovitz praised Jeffrey Epstein and was invited to his island, files reveal

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Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.
Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.

Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Puck

Software ate the world. Now AI is eating software.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Fortune via Reuters Connect

He's a rising star in venture capital. Here's where Iconiq's Ryan Koh says the next great investors will come from.

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Ryan Koh

Iconiq

A legendary coder has been quietly working at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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This startup uses AI to get you on a date — fast. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $9.2 million.

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Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang
Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang.

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The Moltbook creator sees a future where every human has a bot that creates content on their own platforms

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moltbook
Moltbook, a social media-like platform exclusive to AI bots, has seen a surge in bot participation.

illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images

Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

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Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni, wearing a blue blazer and standing in front of a brown padded wall, with his hands in front of him.
Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni

Gruve

Meet the 37 rising stars of the venture capital industry

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Kendra Schultz, James Flynn, and Mustafa Neemuchwala.

Benchstrength; Sequoia Capital; NEA; Business Insider

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