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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI | Equity Podcast

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed…

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This tension between hype and ROI is exactly where NEA partner Tiffany Luck lives these days. She got her start convincing companies that e-commerce was the future, and now she’s all in on AI, especially when it comes to the possibilities for “magic moments” in the consumer business.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Luck joins Rebecca Bellan to talk about the future of personal agents, her thoughts on this year’s AI IPOs, and how startups are stepping in to help enterprises track return on AI spend.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:51 Tiffany Luck’s path from Lot18 to Amazon to VC

3:45 Magic moments: Waymo, healthcare, and the gap in personal agents

7:36 Privacy, security, and trusting AI with your life

10:39 IPO outlook: Anthropic vs. OpenAI on public markets

13:58 Compute, infrastructure, and where the value sits

15:41 What’s the ROI on tokenmaxxing?

27:07 Forward deployed engineers as a ‘Trojan horse’

32:49 Outro

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Google Made Its Pixel Watch 4 Repairable. Can I Actually Fix It?

Broken wearables don’t need to be cast off as e-waste. Repairability is here, although it’s not yet as widespread as it should be. Read more about repairing the Pixel Watch on CNET.com All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can We Do About It? 0:00 Introduction 0:37 Why Right to Repair Matters 1:27 Removing…

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Broken wearables don’t need to be cast off as e-waste. Repairability is here, although it’s not yet as widespread as it should be.

Read more about repairing the Pixel Watch on CNET.com
All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can We Do About It?

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Why Right to Repair Matters
1:27 Removing the Case Back
1:58 Removing the Haptic Engine
2:11 Removing the Battery
2:27 Removing the Sticker and Cables
2:46 Removing the O-Ring
2:58 Reassembling the Pixel Watch
3:22 Repair Time and Conclusion

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Snap Unveils Specs Smart Glasses at AWE 2026

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel reveals new Specs AR smart glasses at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. Read more about Snap’s Specs Smart Glasses on CNET.com Snap’s New Specs Are Chunky, Pricey and I Really Need to Try Them 0:00 Introduction & Reveal 1:05 Hardware, Weight & Prescriptions 1:57 Display Tech & Field…

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel reveals new Specs AR smart glasses at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California.

Read more about Snap’s Specs Smart Glasses on CNET.com
Snap’s New Specs Are Chunky, Pricey and I Really Need to Try Them

0:00 Introduction & Reveal
1:05 Hardware, Weight & Prescriptions
1:57 Display Tech & Field of View
3:15 Electrochromic Lenses & Transparency
3:52 Processors & 7ms Latency
5:04 Real-World Tools & Translation
5:49 Private Display & Workspace Features
6:44 AR Lenses in Action
7:38 Battery Life & Charging Case
9:22 Privacy & Security Features
9:47 Price, Pre-order & Shipping Info

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Android 17 Makes Instagram SO MUCH BETTER

Android 17 is out, and if you have a Google Pixel phone, you can try it right away. Android 17 comes with a bunch of new features, including a new green-screen selfie tool, a Pause Point tool and loads of video and photo improvements for Instagram. 0:00 Introduction to Android 17 0:11 Screen Reactions Feature…

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0:00 Introduction to Android 17
0:11 Screen Reactions Feature
0:57 Instagram Video Stabilization
1:27 Pause Point: Mindful App Usage
2:05 Smart Enhance for Photos and Video
2:35 Sound Separation and Audio Extraction
4:07 How to Download and Conclusion