Edition · Apr 19, 2026

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AI Startup Funding

$25.2B

Global AI startup funding in 2023

What's driving this?

  • AI startups raised $25.2B globally in 2023, down from $66.8B in 2022
  • Generative AI companies received 25% of all AI funding
  • Early-stage funding declined more than late-stage investments

Career takeaway: Focus on practical AI applications rather than pure research - investors want proven business models.

Top AI Stories

Expert Take of the Day

"The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing multiple reasoning"

— bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson), @ VentureBeat

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Knowledge Check: 5 Questions

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According to the 2024 data in the article, what was the primary cause of **68% of cloud breaches**?

Skill to Learn This Week

Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026 (past week)

Agile Methodology

  • Embrace Change: Develops flexibility to adapt to shifting project requirements and feedback.
  • Iterative Delivery: Learn to break large projects into small, manageable, actionable sprints.
  • Collaborative Teamwork: Enhances communication skills by working in self-organizing, cross-functional student teams.
  • Value-Driven Results: Focuses on delivering functional, quality work rather than just documentation.
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