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Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

2026-08-01 06:00:00

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company. 

VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why  

2026-08-01 03:00:00

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

2026-08-01 01:26:32

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human

2026-07-31 22:47:11

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.

AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

2026-07-31 22:00:00

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers

2026-07-31 20:00:00

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.