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A boutique AI cloud provider is bringing the direct listing back Original

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By John Gabbert, Kia Kokalitcheva Verified
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A small, Georgia-based purveyor of access to AI chips began trading on the Nasdaq Thursday in an unexpected way: via a direct listing. On the one hand, QumulusAI’s move is a no-brainer—AI and data centers are all the rage right now. But on the other hand, its decision to go public now, while still small, with a virtually unknown brand, and to not raise any capital, is confounding.
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Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft Original

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By John Gabbert, Kia Kokalitcheva Verified
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In a classic “Friday news dump,” Apple filed a federal lawsuit in California against OpenAI, accusing its once-partner of stealing some of its trade secrets. Specifically, it’s alleging that two of its former employees brought proprietary and confidential information about its hardware to OpenAI when they joined. The lawsuit calls to mind Waymo’s trade secret theft lawsuit against Uber, filed in 2017.
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He founded Udemy and Carbon Health. Now’s he’s tackling AI. Original

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By John Gabbert, Kia Kokalitcheva Verified
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Eren Bali, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Health. Diarmuid Greene/Getty Images What’s an entrepreneur to do after building two once-buzzy startups in healthcare and education? For Eren Bali, the answer is to dive headfirst into consumer AI. Bali made his name in Silicon Valley by co-founding and leading Udemy and Carbon Health, but he says he’s now working on the singular thread that ran through his career: human interaction with technology.
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