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Losing Our Minds To AI

The VC perspective on successful AI startups
You might have a cool idea for an AI startup, but is it venture backable? General Catalyst's Christopher Kauffman will tell you.

We introduced our first AI avatar professor. Here’s why.
Earlier this month, we wrapped our very first AI avatar-led course. Here's the nitty-gritty calculus behind our decision to try avatars as instructors.

Meet your professor: Apple’s Amit Rawal from AI for Data Analysis
We sat down with Apple’s Amit Rawal to ask him all the things you should know before you take his course – including a sneak peek into his data analysis framework.

Pi had a million users. So why did Inflection just implode (and take Pi with it)?
Microsoft just cannibalized a company it was a lead investor in and took its chatbot down with it. Here's what that means for other AI startups.

Losing Our Minds To AI
Let’s have the hard conversation: Yes, AI reliance will atrophy your brain. But knowing that ahead of time can help you get ahead of it – before it impacts your job.

Ex-OpenAI exec: Leaders lack AI conviction
ICs get a lot of the blame for stalling or failing AI deployments. But former OpenAI executive, Zack Kass, says they could very well be the scapegoats for scrambling leadership.

EY's Global Head of AI: Don’t rush to prove AI ROI
If you feel like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out how to make a bulletproof investment in AI, read on for John Thompson’s take on why you actually need to slow down and stop sweating the ROI.

Staying silent on AI is almost as bad as banning it
The piece of data from our latest AI Proficiency Report that we can’t stop thinking about: Silence on AI breeds more AI skepticism than an outright AI ban. So if you’ve been gathering your thoughts on AI, now is the time to put them in writing.