Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human

These billion-dollar AI startups have no products, no revenue and eager investors

A new wave of startups some have dubbed “neolabs” are focusing on long-term research and developing new AI models over immediate profits.

These Billion-Dollar AI Startups Have No Products, No Revenue and Eager Investors

A new wave of startups some have dubbed “neolabs” are focusing on long-term research and developing new AI models over immediate profits.

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

AI Simulation Platform for Human Behavior | Simile

Simulate how real customers respond to a launch, price change, or campaign — before you ship. Built by the Stanford researchers behind generative agents.

Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people? | Seldo.com

AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it's not just hype. But the wave of new jobs I predicted hasn't materialized so far. Compute is replacing labor. Will that change?

Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers

Some organizings are finding themselves spending more on AI token fees than they do paying human salaries.

For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch

A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast -- and soften its threat to human jobs.

Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

AI Behavioral Science

We outline a foundation for a new field of ``AI Behavioral Science,'' covering three perspectives. First, as AI becomes ubiquitous and is increasingly proprietary and opaque, it becomes vital to develop techniques for assessing AI behavior. We outline how tools developed to assess people's behaviors by social scientists can be used to assess and infer AI's behaviors biases, tendencies, and heuristics. Second, we also discuss how AI can change the ways in which we learn about human behavior. Beyond its computational power, AI offers new techniques for simulating, inferring, and predicting human behaviors that we outline and discuss. Third, as humans and AI are interacting in increasingly complex and intertwined systems, we need to understand the implications for the resulting economic and political outcomes. We outline issues that are increasingly pressing concerning the future of human-AI interactions and potential changes and disruptions that can ensue.

AI can cost more than human workers now

When AI labs raise prices, big spending on AI could shift from a flex to a liability.

CEO-Bench

CEO-Bench evaluates whether AI agents can steer a simulated AI startup for 500 days, testing long-term planning, adaptation, and coordination under uncertainty.

How to think about AI company finances

OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.

Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed

AI experts say we’re living in an experiment that may fundamentally change the model of work

AI is probably not a bubble

AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value

AI is probably not a bubble

AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value