{"id":75472,"date":"2025-02-05T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-ai-companies-just-defense-tech-now-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:44:32","slug":"are-ai-companies-just-defense-tech-now-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-ai-companies-just-defense-tech-now-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Are AI companies just defense tech now? | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Equity pod gang \u2014 which included newcomer Max Zeff, Margaux MacColl, and Kirsten Korosec \u2014 noticed an <!--more--> emerging trend: the worlds of AI and defense tech are colliding. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode to hear about:<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  A new fund is in town. And surprise, surprise, Humba Ventures&#8217; $40 million fund is focused on deep tech and defense.\u00a0<br \/>\n  \u2022  How enterprise AI startup Cohere is unlike all the other AI startups out there, and why they&#8217;ve been so quiet. Particularly in this new deal with Palantir.<br \/>\n  \u2022  Dig into the great philosophical question of 2024: is it dumb to IPO in an election year? And, perhaps more importantly, will this IPO dry spell continue in 2025?<br \/>\n  \u2022  Should founders be cautious of investors with foreign backing?<\/p>\n<p>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffCredits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We&#8217;d also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Equity pod gang \u2014 which included newcomer Max Zeff, Margaux MacColl, and Kirsten Korosec \u2014 noticed an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}