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KillerStartups
September 04, 2024
The KillerStartups weekly newsletter is back this Monday after our 2024 special.
As always, please support the newest Featured Startups, as many are looking for feedback and just starting out!
Our team packed a lot into this newsletter, so let’s get into it!
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Featured Startups
KillerStartups’ Mission is to help entrepreneurs achieve the next big thing. Our role is to connect you with founders you can help, and founders who can help you!
When we featured Uber in 2010, Founder Travis Kalanick might have still been your driver.
Uber raised their first $1.6MM three months after we featured them. $4.9B later, we are still proud to have discovered them.
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Our question to you is: How can YOU help these companies?
With our newest polling feature, you can rate these startups and provide feedback about YOUR thoughts!
30-Second News Picks
Our 30-Second Summary:
A recent report has revealed that the marketing firm Cox Media Group (CMG) has been using its "Active Listening" software to secretly monitor smartphone conversations in order to gather data for targeted advertising. According to CMG's own pitch deck, the AI-powered software captures "real-time intent data by listening to our conversations," which is then paired with users' behavioral data to allow advertisers to target "in-market consumers." After being contacted about the issue, Google removed CMG from its "Partners Program" website, stating that all advertisers must comply with applicable laws and Google's advertising policies - highlighting growing concerns around the privacy implications of companies secretly monitoring user conversations for commercial gain.
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Our 30-Second Summary:
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the company in May, has raised $1 billion from prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global for his new AI startup called Safe Superintelligence (SSI). Sutskever, who co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team focused on ensuring AI safety, left along with colleague Jan Leike who joined rival Anthropic. Sutskever founded SSI with the goal of pursuing "safe superintelligence" as its sole focus, without the distractions of product cycles or commercial pressures. This move comes after Sutskever was involved in the temporary ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last year, an episode he later publicly apologized for.
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Our 30-Second Summary:
This news article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming customer service and contact centers, but may not lead to widespread job losses as some have feared. The article highlights the case of Alorica, a customer service firm that has introduced an AI translation tool allowing its representatives to communicate with customers in over 200 languages. Rather than replacing workers, Alorica is using AI to enhance productivity and efficiency, allowing representatives to handle more calls faster. The experience of Alorica and other companies suggests that while AI will impact many jobs, it may create new roles and make workers more productive, rather than leading to mass unemployment. The article cites studies indicating that historical technological advancements have typically destroyed some jobs while creating new ones in unexpected ways.
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Notes From KillerStartups Staff 👀
Our team is happy to announce the newest features on KillerStartups, including the site redesign and polling feature. We could not accomplish these goals without a supportive and powerful community like yourselves! Thank you!
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