My takeaways from Sam Altman's interview
Notes on Sam Altman’s two-hour interview — OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, board saga, computational power and high-stakes AGI competition.
Notes on Sam Altman’s two-hour interview — OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, board saga, computational power and high-stakes AGI competition.
Denmark plans to grant copyright over face, voice and body in 2025/26 — legal fines for deepfake misuse and platforms that ignore takedowns.
Raised €1M pre-seed, launched Placy Pro tests; now considering a €2M–€10M seed round, dilution trade-offs, Carta guidance on keeping ~55–60% founders' shares.
Short take on Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD): AI trained on model-generated data degrades without fresh human data; image evokes uniform agents.
Placy announces Meta Tech Provider status to simplify WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook integration for realtors, with APIs, onboarding and Meta's support.
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Reflection on why property portals are stuck in a 2010s mindset and how AI (Simon Baker, Cian.ru reference) could trigger a seismic change.
Founder note on choosing primary B2C platform — LinkedIn is fixed for B2B; user counts for Cyprus+Greece and 2023 growth rates for major networks.
Future Unicorns Party at Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov 11, 7pm — speakers Oleg Khusaenov, Michael Bychenok, Eugene Zhiharev; registration: fienta.com/futureunicorns (code UNICORN)
Notes on Y Combinator's 'Most promising areas for tech startups in 2024' — Placy/Placy Pro focus on Explainable AI and LLMs for legacy back-office automation.
Gartner predicts 25% drop in search volume by 2026 as users move to ChatGPT/Claude — marketplaces face bot-first traffic, pushing SEO/AEO over TV ads.
AI trends, opportunities and early-adopter challenges at the Cyprus session on May 28; includes Business Meets Tech networking and promo code LMBI10.
Survey of 2,778 AI experts: 50% chance of major AI milestones by 2028; 37–51% assign ≥10% extinction risk. Placy Pro may reshape real estate jobs.
Brief note on Diella, Albania’s AI 'minister' for public procurement — a PR-forward GovTech experiment that raises transparency questions and GPT limits.
Announcement: R-Founders Day Dubai on Feb 6 — 50 attendees, AI in operations, 2026 fundraising rules, XPANCEO lab visit and networking with founders.
Interview with Uri Levine — 2x unicorn founder; discusses PMF, AI‑maps (Waze), VC shifts and a Cyprus drought drone metaphor.
Sergey Osipov summarises PropTech 2026 in a 5-minute Doers Summit Dubai talk: why startups must learn to compete with bots; video link included.
StartupCon Europe 2026 at The Warehouse, Limassol (June 26–27). Titans and the Brave pitch competition; promo code NATURALLY100ART for a complimentary ticket.
AI widened the attack surface: Mozilla fixed 423 Firefox vulnerabilities in April; defenders use Claude Mythos but it's not a moat.
Interviews with marketing, creative and music agencies on layoffs, AI and where the gaming industry is headed; quotes and podcast links from Manarino, Brodsky, Lyman.