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Zero to success: What we got wrong before we got it right (live event)
Starting a company is one thing. Keeping it alive is another.
For early-stage founders, the journey is filled with high-stakes decisions, fast pivots, and plenty of mistakes no one tells you about upfront.
On April 24th, join a candid conversation with Shaan Puri (Founder of My First Million), Chase Lee (Founder and CEO of Trustpage, acquired by Vanta), and Travis Good (Co-founder and CEO of Workstreet) as they unpack the early missteps, tough calls, and tactical lessons that helped them get from zero to success.
Whether you're in your first year or gearing up for growth, this webinar is packed with real talk from founders who’ve been there.
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🫠 Report reveals internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure
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- Apple's leadership repeatedly changed direction on Siri's backend, considering local and cloud-based language models before settling on a cloud-based approach, causing frustration among engineers and staff departures.
- The internal AI team has been labeled "AIMLess" by employees who cite poor leadership, lack of ambition, and a risk-averse culture as primary factors in Siri's development problems.
- Apple's impressive demonstration of Siri features at WWDC 2024 was reportedly fictitious, with only the colorful display ribbon actually functioning on test devices, breaking from Apple's tradition of showcasing working products.
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💥 Meta whistleblower says company targeted ads at teens based on their ’emotional state’
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- Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams testified that the company targeted teens with advertisements based on their emotional states, identifying when 13-17 year-olds felt worthless or helpless to help advertisers pitch products at vulnerable moments.
- During her Senate testimony, Wynn-Williams revealed that Meta considered teens a "very valuable" demographic for advertisers, even targeting young girls with weight loss ads when they expressed body confidence concerns.
- Despite Meta's denial of these allegations as "divorced from reality," Wynn-Williams noted the hypocrisy that many Silicon Valley executives, including those at Meta, prohibit their own children from using the social media products they develop.
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👀 Nvidia’s H20 AI chips may be spared from export controls
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- The U.S. government has reversed its plan to block Nvidia's H20 HGX GPU exports to China following a meeting between President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at a $1 million-per-head dinner.
- Nvidia reportedly promised to increase investment in U.S.-based AI data centers after the dinner, which helped ease the administration's concerns about selling the high-performance AI chips to China.
- The decision comes ahead of the May 15 AI Diffusion Rule implementation, which would otherwise prohibit sales of American AI processors to Chinese entities and impact Nvidia's reported $16 billion worth of H20 GPU sales to China.
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🤖 Samsung’s Gemini-powered Ballie home robot
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- Samsung's Ballie home robot, equipped with wheels, a projector, speaker, and microphone, is scheduled to launch in the US this summer with pre-registration currently available on Samsung's website.
- The spherical personal assistant integrates Google's Gemini AI alongside Samsung's own language models to understand various inputs and offer personalized advice on fashion, health, and home automation.
- Despite its charming BB-8-like appearance and advanced AI capabilities, Ballie's success remains uncertain as previous home robots without specific use cases have struggled to gain market traction.
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🔄 OpenAI countersues Elon Musk for alleged harassment and takeover attempt
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- OpenAI has countersued Elon Musk, alleging the Tesla CEO attempted a hostile takeover of the AI company using "bad-faith tactics" and seeking to block what they call his campaign of harassment centered on a $97 billion takeover bid.
- Internal emails shared by OpenAI allegedly show Musk pushed to convert the organization into a for-profit entity under his control as early as 2017, contradicting his public claims that the company abandoned its nonprofit mission.
- The countersuit comes after Musk's March lawsuit against OpenAI, with the company now seeking damages while preparing for an expedited trial set for fall 2025 amid its recent $40 billion funding round that valued it at $300 billion.
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💰 Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription
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- Anthropic has introduced a premium "Max Plan" subscription for Claude AI, offering a $100 monthly tier with five times the resources of the standard Pro plan and a $200 tier with twenty times the resources.
- The new subscription targets power users working with lengthy conversations, complex data analysis, and document editing, while also providing priority access to Claude's latest versions and features.
- This pricing strategy follows OpenAI's similar $200 tier launched in December 2024, signaling a shift toward usage-based pricing as AI companies aim to align costs with computing resources and delivered value.
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