Contents

• Editorial: 

• Essays of the Week

  • The modern data stack was never big enough

  • Revisiting The Death of a Venture Fund

  • Calpers’ $4.5 Billion Venture Bet

  • Global Venture Funding In November Slows At Early Stage

  • The Fintech Sector Trotted The Most New Unicorns Onto Our Board In November

  • From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money

• Video of the Week

  • The Where, When, and How of AI

• AI of the Week

  • Learn more about Gemini, our most capable AI model

  • Google’s Gemini Marketing Trick

  • Nope, the Turing Test has not been solved

  • The EU has reached a historic regulatory agreement over AI development

  • X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers

  • Apple releases Apple Silicon-optimized MLX machine learning framework

• News Of the Week

  • Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie

  • Google launches migration tool ahead of Google Podcasts’ 2024 shutdown

  • Carta: Startup Shutdowns Are Up 237%

  • Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024

  • The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment

  • Amazon asks court to dismiss FTC lawsuit that accuses it of ‘monopolistic practices’

• Startup of the Week

  • Animate Anyone

• X of the Week

  • In case you don’t believe anti-semitism is real

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