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Nectar launched an AI agent to automate creator discovery; plus, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
2026/11/13 | 6 mins.Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.
Also, Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesJensen Huang is out at Nvidia — who is Colette Kress, his interim replacement?
2026/11/12 | 3 mins.Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over for as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesPlurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads, and more
2026/11/12 | 8 mins.Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
Also, OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesProximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development; plus, PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
2026/11/11 | 9 mins.Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma
Also, PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesA YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI; plus, AI hardware startup Nominal triples its valuation
2026/11/10 | 6 mins.While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
Also, Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
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