Startups Weekly: Enjoying the reprieve

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startups aren’t isolated from the world. But this week, funding news felt positively uncorrelated from the overall news cycle, offering somewhat of a reprieve — or perhaps just more time to prepare to invest in “planetary and societal health,” as one new fund plans to. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Getty Images This week included an exit, a lawsuit, a disappointing sale, and a scientific controversy. OpenAI alumni: Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati secured two new high-profile advisers with past ties to OpenAI for her new venture, AI startup Thinking Machines Lab. As for OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, he chose Google Cloud’s TPU chips to power the research conducted by his new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence. Friends and foes: OpenAI is reportedly considering spending $ ... Read full article.