Billion-dollar AI startup founders are getting younger — here’s why
Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale, attends an AI summit in Paris in February 2025. Getty Images The…
DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release –…
The No.1 reason startups fail in the first two years, according to a VC
Concept Ventures was an early investor in billion dollar AI firm Eleven Labs. Reece Chowdhury A venture capitalist…
Two Gen Zers turned down millions from Elon Musk to build an AI based on the human brain—and it’s outperformed models from OpenAI and Anthropic
Two years ago, a pair of 22-year-old friends who met in high school in Michigan found themselves sitting…
She ran her parents’ dry cleaner at 18. Today, the ‘godmother of AI’ is advising world leaders and running a billion-dollar startup
Before Fei-Fei Li helped launch the modern era of artificial intelligence, she was running a dry cleaner in…
Nvidia joins $2 billion India deep tech alliance to mentor AI startups
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July. Picture…
Inside a 24-hour ‘vibe coding’ hackathon–here are my biggest takeaways
CNBC correspondent Ernestine Siu attended an AI hackathon. Courtesy of Ernestine Siu I like to spend most of…
Risk-averse parents are fueling Britain’s ambition crisis, VCs say
Mother and daughter using the laptop at home Fg Trade | E+ | Getty Images Concerns of an…
American founders more demanding than Europe, OpenAI startup boss says
OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October. Nurphoto | Nurphoto…
Founders and VCs weigh in on the U.K.’s ambition deficit
Almost 60% of young people in the U.K. are interested in starting their own businesses, per the Generation…
The 22-year-old AI CEO behind Friend.com necklace welcomes graffiti on his $1 million ad campaign: ‘Capitalism is the greatest artistic medium’
If you take the subway in New York City, or drive a car in Los Angeles, you’ve seen…
Startup founders share how they bounced back from failure
Over two-thirds of startup founders have a fear of failure, per the Founder Resilience Research Report, 2024. Skynesher…