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Are two ex-McKinsey consultants out to kill McKinsey with AI?
So-called ‘corporate reputation’ can account for as much as 30% of its market value in large public companies, but the systems used to monitor and protect that are hugely fragmented. Omniscient is a Paris-based startup that has built an AI-driven platform to assess that value, something the big consultancies normally charge millions for. Co-founder and CEO Arnaud d'Estienne spoke to Pathfounders.
Sonia Afzal argues that the row over Sifted’s recent “tech bro renaissance” opinion piece misses the real story: a deeper cultural shift in tech, where feminism, media incentives, and “brosculinity” collide.
Could energy from the heavens answer our prayers?
With both the rise of AI and, of course, a potential oil crisis looming as a result of the war in the Middle East, energy is now the defining battleground of this half of the decade. Could power from space be the answer? TerraSpark has just raised over €5 million in pre-seed funding. Pathfounders spoke to co-founder and CEO Jasper Deprez about both the sheer logistics and the potential for the new form of energy.
Corporate AI productivity lag is costing billions. Is the LLM approach a dead end?
We were told AI would make us work faster and be more productive. But a recent survey of 1,000 executives found corporate employees having to spend too much time checking AI outputs, leading to anxiety, and “AI burnout”. Pathfounders spoke to William Tunstall-Pedoe, founder and CEO of UnlikelyAI, which commissioned the independent survey of 1,000 executives, to unpack what might be going on and where we go next.
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