{"id":672205,"date":"2026-05-15T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:10","slug":"david-fairfull-founder-of-failed-ai-start-up-metigy-asks-court-for-mercy-points-to-anxiety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672205\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fairfull, founder of failed AI start-up Metigy, asks court for mercy, points to anxiety issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy jail sentence for the former chief executive of failed artificial intelligence marketing start-up Metigy could come down to his use of stolen funds to purchase two luxury residential properties in one of Sydney\u2019s wealthiest suburbs and another near the Southern Highlands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/ai-start-up-founder-pleads-guilty-to-misleading-investors-20251104-p5n7p9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In November<\/a>, David Fairfull, who co-founded Metigy in 2015, admitted to one count of making false and misleading statements when he misled investors who put in $15.7 million for shares during a $50 million capital raising in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lengthy jail sentence for the former chief executive of failed artificial intelligence marketing start-up Metigy could come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-672205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}