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Kevin Durant’s Early Hugging Face Bet Could Be Worth Over $60 Million After Nvidia Deal

Kevin Durant’s connection with Hugging Face began well before the company became closely associated with open-source artificial intelligence. The basketball star reportedly invested $100,000 in…

Epil Bodra

September 27

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Pure Lithium: Startup Bets on Graphite-Free Lithium Metal Batteries

Khushi Bhatia

6 min
Taru Kapoor, Rivet, Rivet Dating, Rivet Dating App, Social Matching, Dating Network, Online Dating, Dating Apps, Matchmaking, Human Matchmaking, Taru Kapoor Rivet, Former Tinder Executive, MeantToBe Inc, Peak XV Partners, Shine Capital, Blume Ventures, Rivet Funding, Startup Funding, Consumer Tech, Dating Startup

Taru Kapoor’s Rivet Turns Dating Into a Social Network With Human Matchmakers

Epil Bodra

6 min
Mostik, Mostik AI, Sasha Malysheva, Stanislav Smirnov, General Catalyst, AI Models, Latent Space, Frontier Models, Open Weight Models, Artificial Intelligence, ARC-AGI, GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.5, AI Reasoning, AI Infrastructure, Model Interoperability, AI Startups

Mostik Links Frontier and Small AI Models Through Latent-Space Reasoning

Heer Shah

6 min
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Why Is Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley Being Trolled? Privacy, Surveillance and Security Concerns Explained

Epil Bodra

7 min
Female Founders, African Startup Funding, Women Entrepreneurs, She Code Africa Summit 2026, Shuttlers, Damilola Olokesusi, Napa Onwusah, Africa The Big Deal, Women in Tech Africa, Startup Funding Africa, Venture Capital Africa, Female Entrepreneurs Africa

Female Founders Get Less Than 1% of African Funding as Shuttlers CEO Reveals Four-Year Bootstrapping Journey

Khushi Bhatia

5 min
Anthropic, Claude AI, Jack Clark, Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI, AI Kill Switch, AI Safety, AI Governance, Artificial Intelligence, AI Regulation, Dario Amodei, Claude Constitution, AI Risks, Generative AI, AI Safeguards

Anthropic AI ‘Kill Switch’ Debate Deepens as Microsoft Flags Claude’s Humanlike Traits

Epil Bodra

5 min
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