AI Insurance Startup Corgi Doubles Valuation To $2.6 Billion In Weeks

Welcome to the frenzied world of AI, where a two-year-old startup founded by a 26-year-old can have a company-owned dog, run a 24-hour cafe and raise $106 million about a month after becoming a unicorn.

AI Coding Power Users Are Churning Out 46X More Code Than The Rest

The 10x engineer is dead. With AI, the most prolific engineers are churning out 46X more code than the rest, according to a new report from Cursor

AI And The End Of Recessions As We Know Them

AI could allow the economy to keep growing even as fewer workers benefit from it, raising new questions about GDP and how recessions are defined.

Meet The Doctor-Turned-Entrepreneur Using AI To Save Lives

Aengus Tran traded medical practice to build AI software that delivers quick and accurate diagnoses of X-rays and scans. Now, the 32-year-old CEO of Sydney-based Harrison.ai and a 30 Under 30 Asia alum, is targeting America’s overstretched healthcare s…

The Ebola Epidemic Is Spreading

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the spreading Ebola epidemic, the Midas list health investors, Lilly’s trio of vaccine deals, and more.

Thrive And Sequoia Back Pace With $46 Million To Automate Insurance’s Back Office

Thrive and Sequoia have invested $46 million into Pace, a startup that says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.

Sarah Guo Bet Everything On AI Pre-ChatGPT. Now She’s One Of The World’s Top Investors

Before everyone was sold on AI, the Conviction founder went all-in on it, backing buzzy names like Harvey, Cognition and OpenEvidence long before they had multi-billion-dollar valuations.

Investing Superstar Yasmin Razavi Turned A $75 Million Check Into A $3 Billion AI Windfall

The Spark Capital partner bet early on Anthropic when most other VCs wouldn’t touch it. Now the hottest AI company on the planet has landed her on the Midas List of best investors for the first time.

Boom Times For The Battery Energy Storage Market

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s reliance on California and a deal to supply clean hydrogen, generated underground, for buses and trucks