YouTube says over 25% of its creator partners now monetize via Shorts, Amazon doubles down on Anthropic completing its planned $4B investment

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YouTube says over 25% of its creator partners now monetize via Shorts. - Link

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment. - Link

Google will soon roll out on-device AI-powered features on Pixel 8. - Link

Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay. - Link

Google's charitable wing Google.org launches a generative AI accelerator, to be funded by $20M in grants. - Link

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Creatify AI generates professional quality marketing videos for any product from a single product link. - Link

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E1921: Jason hosts a live Q&A session, addressing startup strategies such as investment approaches, the importance of founder prioritization, the decision to raise venture capital, and balancing skepticism with enthusiasm in investments. - Watch

E1920: Sunny and Jason discuss the resignation of the CEO of Stability AI, a report from a16z on AI and Enterprises, and Sunny demos three AI tools: Gatekeep AI, Deepgram API Playground, and the Claude model Haiku from Anthropic. - Watch

E1919: David Weisburd, Mamoon Hamid, Thomas Scriven, and Jason discuss the growth of India's startup ecosystem, investment strategies, including the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the evolution of the tech industry dynamics. They also touch on future perspectives on mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs within the tech sector. - Watch

E1918: Microsoft has acquired Inflection AI and integrated technologies from other companies like Suno and Cohere, marking a significant move in consolidating AI technologies and potentially avoiding regulatory scrutiny usually associated with mergers and acquisitions. The episode also covers Apple's acquisitions in AI, Suno's new model capabilities, including song production, and discussions on fair use of internet-scraped data. - Watch

E1917: Jamie Rhode from Screendoor discusses optimizing early-stage fund structures, the significance of GP market fit, and strategies for effective portfolio construction. She also covers the unique aspects of seed-stage investing, Screendoor's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the characteristics of high-performing general partners. - Watch

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