Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with its 24-year-old founder. The meeting, which took place in February through a mutual connection, led to Groom investing $20 million in Pronto as an extension…

Though this year has already seen the release of one Game of Thrones spinoff, it looks like fans of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy world won’t have to wait long to go back to Westeros, as season 3 of House of the Dragon is officially coming to the small screen…

Snap no longer has a deal with Perplexity, the company revealed on Wednesday as part of its quarterly earnings report. The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat. Perplexity was set to pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity over one…

A lot of great movies came out in 2022. I still remember kicking things off with The Batman and being blown away by Robert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader. Then, toward the end of the year, Avatar: The Way of Water finally arrived as the highly-anticipated sequel to Avatar,…

Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn. This comes just four months after the company announced a $108 million Series A. The company has now raised $268 million…

A couple of years back, I switched entirely to optical media for personal data archival purposes. Not long after, I rekindled my joy for physical media, ditching several expensive streaming services in favor of a growing library of DVDs and Blu-ray discs. There are a variety of reasons why I’ve…

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I, which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI, and others, through a publicly-traded fund listed on the NYSE. “We had something like over 150,000 retail investors participate in…

In late August 2017, key figures at OpenAI (then a small non-profit research lab) gathered to discuss how they would create a for-profit to commercialize its technology and raise the funds needed to realize AGI. Elon Musk was demanding full control of the company and had just given each of…

For the longest time, I relied on an external solid state drive (SSD) to back up all my important files, documents, photos, videos, and more. While not the cheapest form of storage, flash storage is speedy, robust against the elements, physically compact, and highly convenient. Then, one day about two…

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, according to a proposal on the county website. The company estimates it may spend a total of $119 billion on the…