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After an advanced OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, CEO Sam Altman says deliberately pacing AI development may be essential to let society harden—and he warns that safety rhetoric can mask power grabs.
India's app economy is undergoing a dramatic shift from a high-download, low-revenue market to a fast-growing monetization powerhouse. Consumer spending surged 35% to a record $345 million in Q2, fueled by generative AI, streaming, and non-gaming apps, while infrastructure like UPI makes payments frictionless.
At 19, Arlan Rakhmetzhanov frames his future in stark terms: either build the next Google or face destitution. He started coding at 15 in Kazakhstan, networked his way into San Francisco summer programs, and at 17, secured an angel check after sliding into the DMs of every Y Combinator founder on LinkedIn. Now his startup Nozomio has raised $6 million, but the pressure to become an overnight sensation is more brutal than ever.
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Health & Wellness
Function Health offers a preventive screening platform that analyzes full-body lab results to reveal disease risks, then connects you with top doctors for personalized action plans.
Austin, United States
AI
Simile delivers enterprise-grade simulation software that helps companies like Gallup, CVS, and Wealthfront reduce risk, speed up innovation, and drive growth. Model complex scenarios to make confident, data-backed decisions.
San Francisco, United States
Productivity
telli helps B2C enterprises like Sky build, deploy, and continuously improve consumer-facing AI voice agents at scale, turning every call into real business outcomes.
Berlin, Germany
AI
Frontier AI lab creating self-improving systems that design chips, recursively tightening the loop between software and silicon to speed superintelligence.
Palo Alto, United States
AI
Access a full-featured voice AI platform via a no-code web interface, a developer-friendly REST API, or an official SDK—making speech synthesis and voice cloning seamless for any project.
San Francisco, United States
Productivity
Henry unifies your firm's data and brand into a single workspace, instantly generating accurate underwriting, comps, research, buyer and lender lists, and win-ready decks for commercial real estate deals. Every figure traceable to its source — in hours, not weeks.
New York, United States
Cybersecurity
Onyx Security's control plane helps enterprise teams govern, secure, and track the performance of AI agents, enabling safe AI adoption at scale. Built on proprietary agentic models, it’s used by top Fortune 500s.
New York, United States
DevTools
Speakeasy’s AI Control Plane enables organizations to build, secure, observe, and distribute AI tools, building on its roots in API developer experience tooling.
San Francisco, United States
Capital
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