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OpenAI's steamroller, or the insatiable giant
Platform and ecosystem operators have always done splash damage to the people who build for them – but is OpenAI's bystander threat worse than anything…
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Darrell Etherington
Welcome to the era of personality-based tool selection
What happens when we have to consider soft skills in our tech stack as much as in our people selection? Let's talk about the new 'personality hire'
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Darrell Etherington
A $6.5 billion epic troll, or the real AI future of consumer devices?
Porque no los dos?
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Darrell Etherington
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Meet the latest betaworks AI startup Camp cohort
NYC's betaworks bowed the latest group of companies to go through its Camp program, nine AI startups building at the application layer
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Darrell Etherington
GrowthX raises $12M... and I'm along for the ride!
This isn't the usual funding announcement from The Angle, because I'm finally actually joining a startup instead of just writing about or helping fund…
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Darrell Etherington
Redcar's AI sales superpower platform lands $5.3M from Khosla, Greylock and others
The startup's DNA in consumer products like Google Assistant help it combine the best AI has to offer with a UX that salespeople actually like
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rabbit hints at future and partner hardware with 'rabbitOS intern' launch
Since launch, the company has been focused on agents, and this release hints at Android-like ambitions to be the OS of a broad AI consumer hardware…
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Darrell Etherington
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