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- AI is moving too fast for people to keep up. So we’re building something new. Lightwork is our weekly show on AI, tech, and funding, hosted by @clairejyz and @Machiz. Thank you @MollySOShea and @sourceryy for the first look at what we’re building.NEW: a16z bought Turpentine. OpenAI bought TBPN. Jack Altman joined Benchmark. Now Lightspeed makes its move.. The $40B AUM VC fund hired Claire Zau (aka 'Zauey Talks' on IG) to lead *new media* & co-host Lightwork, its weekly AI podcast Zauey Talks Stats: - 350K+ followers -
00:00 - For the first time since leaving Google DeepMind to found @IneffableLabs, David Silver joined Lightspeed's @ravi_lsvp on stage at @Founders_Forum in the UK. David launched Ineffable earlier this year with a singular mission: making first contact with superintelligence. In
Read more about our investment in Ineffable Intelligence here: - Ravi Mhatre on what makes a founder special: “They think in future tense.” The best founders think from first principles. They understand technology at its “ground truth level.” And they can tell a story about the future that, “five years and even ten years later,” turns out to
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01:00:16A historic IPO, a massive makeover for Siri, and Anthropic's most powerful model released to the public. What do these have in common? They were all covered on the inaugural episode of Lightwork, Lightspeed’s newest podcast with hosts @clairejyz and @Machiz breaking down some - Lightspeed reposted
Shrinking the time between disclosure and exploitation is vital for cybersecurity. @chainguard_dev has been working to shrink that time by identifying potential threats before attackers do. They just announced Athena, an industry coalition targeting open source vulnerabilitiesIntroducing Athena: the industry coalition to protect open source software from AI attacks. Athena is operational today. More than two dozen members. It's processed 20,000+ findings and generated 2,000+ patches across 500+ open source projects. Join us: chainguard.dev/athena
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Beyond excited to announce that Lightwork is officially live! 🚀 Every week, @Machiz and I are sitting with guests and experts across the ecosystem to make sense of all the noise. This is our place to think out loud together, learn, and externalize all of the incredible things
00:00 - Watch the full episode here:A historic IPO, a massive makeover for Siri, and Anthropic's most powerful model released to the public. What do these have in common? They were all covered on the inaugural episode of Lightwork, Lightspeed’s newest podcast with hosts @clairejyz and @Machiz breaking down some00:00
- By the time a cybersecurity vulnerability is public, attackers may already have an exploit ready. @chainguard_dev has been working to shrink the time between disclosure and exploitation by identifying potential threats before attackers do. They just released Athena, an industryIntroducing Athena: the industry coalition to protect open source software from AI attacks. Athena is operational today. More than two dozen members. It's processed 20,000+ findings and generated 2,000+ patches across 500+ open source projects. Join us: chainguard.dev/athena00:00Learn more about Athena here: chainguard.dev/athenaRead more about the coalition here:
- Most people think of SpaceX as a rocket company. @clairejyz breaks it down into three businesses: 1) Space transportation: Falcon 9, Dragon, Starship, and the launch business 2) Global internet connectivity: Starlink, or as Claire puts it, “a much better internet” anywhere you
00:0001:00:16A historic IPO, a massive makeover for Siri, and Anthropic's most powerful model released to the public. What do these have in common? They were all covered on the inaugural episode of Lightwork, Lightspeed’s newest podcast with hosts @clairejyz and @Machiz breaking down some
