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Iain Martin

@iainmartin
10 posts
2026-01-19
“There's so much AI slop out there...it has become really important to understand what people want,” says Alfred Wahlforss who just raised $69m for AI consumer research startup Listen Labs “We help you talk to real people.”  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
2026-01-19 View on X
Forbes

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation

2026-01-18
“There's so much AI slop out there...it has become really important to understand what people want,” says Alfred Wahlforss who just raised $69m for AI consumer research startup Listen Labs “We help you talk to real people.”  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
2026-01-18 View on X
Forbes

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation

The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools …LinkedIn:Alfred Wahlforss,Listen Labs,Florian Juengermann,Romani...

2025-09-23
Nvidia's Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
2025-09-23 View on X
Forbes

A look at London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale, which landed a $500M investment from Nvidia and aims to scale up to 300K GPUs globally, on par with CoreWeave

Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build … Bluesky: @iainmartin Bluesky: Iain Martin / @iainmartin : Nvidia'...

2025-08-20
xAI made people's conversations with its chatbot public and searchable on Google without warning — including a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk and explicit instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
2025-08-20 View on X
Forbes

Grok's “share” button generates a unique URL that makes users' chats searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo; Google has indexed 370K+ Grok conversations

xAI made people's conversations with its chatbot public and searchable on Google without warning …

2025-04-27
“Access to SpaceX, Xai and Neuralink shares is controlled by a tightknit coterie of Musk associates, who have quietly built businesses doling them out through shell companies, racking up huge fees and profits in the process.” www.wsj.com/business/elo...
2025-04-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI

www.wsj.com/business/elo... X: Dave Benoit / @davecbenoit : It pays very well to be friends with Elon Musk. What CEO would go public when you can make your best friends rich contro...

2025-04-26
“Access to SpaceX, Xai and Neuralink shares is controlled by a tightknit coterie of Musk associates, who have quietly built businesses doling them out through shell companies, racking up huge fees and profits in the process.” www.wsj.com/business/elo...
2025-04-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI

Lucrative stock deals have allowed SpaceX to avoid public scrutiny even as it has grown into one of the largest companies in the U.S.

“Access to SpaceX, Xai and Neuralink shares is controlled by a tightknit coterie of Musk associates, who have quietly built businesses doling them out through shell companies, racking up huge fees and profits in the process.” www.wsj.com/business/elo...
2025-04-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B

Elon Musk's XAI Holdings is in talks with investors to raise roughly $20 billion in funding for his newly combined artificial intelligence startup …

2025-03-17
When a court-appointed lawyer showed up at Rippling's Dublin office and demanded that the employee hand over the device, D.S. [an alleged mole] locked himself in a bathroom.  He later fled the scene, it said.  www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...
2025-03-17 View on X
New York Times

HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel

A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.

2025-01-08
Coda - Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company's decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the US.  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-01-08 View on X
Platformer

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past

2024-12-03
“the documents show how Atos effectively slowed work by only partially installing [the EU's new smart border] equipment, misplacing parts...and often sending teams lacking in experience, leading to missed deadlines and millions in additional maintenance costs.”  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2024-12-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources and docs: troubled IT firm Atos is largely responsible for issues delaying the rollout of the EU's automated biometric Entry/Exit border system to 2025

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Iain Martin / @iainmartin : “the documents show how Atos effectively slowed work by only partially installing [the EU's new smart border] equipmen...