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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Devin Coldewey and Margaux MacColl dig into the week’s tech and startup news, including what a new scaling method could mean for AI startups if it works and for chip providers if it fails. Listen to the full episode to hear about: - The DOJ’s latest proposal for Google: it should divest its Chrome browser. While we wait for a break in the monopoly case and a better search alternative to arise, the Equity crew thinks that Wiz might’ve been on to something when they said no to Alphabet. - Dual-use drone startup Tekever’s $74 million raise and its part in the European defense tech boom - How Converge Bio plans to build an ’everything store’ for biotech LLMs. While on the subject of LLMs, Kirsten took us deeper into ServiceTitan’s S-1, including its boilerplate warning about AI. - Network states 2.0. Margaux had the latest on Praxis’s unusual $525 million raise and the regions its founder is eyeing for a new city.

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Invest Puerto Rico.
0:03.3	If you believe your business can go anywhere, Puerto Rico is the place.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechRunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.
0:24.5	Today is Friday, November 22nd, 2024.
0:28.7	I'm Kirsten Koresak, and joining me today are my fellow T-Cers, Devin Coldaway and Margo McCall.
0:35.5	What's going on you two?
0:37.4	I saw some otters today.
0:39.3	Interesting.
0:40.2	Not anything to do with tech, but I appreciate it.
0:44.0	I didn't realize that I had to be tech.
0:45.7	I was going to say I walked my cat.
0:48.0	Okay, two amazing animal moments, but we should probably get into the show.
0:53.5	Today we have deals of the week covering surveillance
0:56.3	drones and everything store of biotech LLMs. I cannot wait for Devin to give us the lowdown on
1:02.5	that. And how the age of AI is giving us a new risk factor in IPOS 1 docs. Okay, insidery, but
1:09.8	relevant. And then we're going to get into why current AI scaling laws are forcing labs to change
1:15.4	course.
1:16.3	And what I'm really looking forward to is network states 2.0.
1:21.0	Are we already on 2.0?
1:22.5	Oh, yeah.
1:22.9	Oh, yeah, we are.
1:23.9	Before we get into the first deal, which is a story that I believe Margo wrote about, I did
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