Contents Editorial:  Essays of the Week The modern data stack was never big enough Revisiting The Death of a Venture Fund Calpers’ $4.5 Billion Venture Bet Global Venture Funding In November Slows At Early Stage The Fintech Sector Trotted The Most New Unicorns Onto Our Board In November From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money Video of the Week The Where, When, and How of AI AI of the Week Learn more about Gemini, our most capable AI model Google’s Gemini Marketing Trick Nope, the Turing Test has not been solved The EU has reached a historic regulatory agreement over AI development X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers Apple releases Apple Silicon-optimized MLX machine learning framework News Of the Week Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie Google launches migration tool ahead of Google Podcasts’ 2024 shutdown Carta: Startup Shutdowns Are Up 237% Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024 The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment Amazon asks court to dismiss FTC lawsuit that accuses it of ‘monopolistic practices’ Startup of the Week Animate Anyone X of the Week In case you don’t believe anti-semitism is real --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message