Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is imagining a future where AI can go on dates for us – and that future isn’t too far away. People are already using apps like Nomi and Character.AI to roleplay real romantic relationships with AI bots, and apps like Teaser AI are already working on something akin to what Herd is describing.

This episode of Equity breaks down months-long reporting surrounding Newchip’s bankruptcy and its impact on founders, as well as the broader accelerator landscape as a whole.

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Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference with a big helping of AI. They unveiled updates to their flagship AI model Gemini, splashy new generative AI features for search, Gmail, and Google Sheets , and previewed new capabilities for Google’s AI assistant on Android. Following OpenAI’s release of it’s GPT-4o model, te can’t help but notice the competition between the two companies is heating up.

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