EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR FirmSep 24
the new face of ai safety claimed he worked alone. but the firm representing eliezer yudkowsky is helping him book interviews.
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We Talked to the 17-Year-Old Who Put on the World's First Sperm Race
an interview with eric zhu on launching a start-up from his high school bathroom, creating the sperm race, and why he’s so good at going viral
Riley Nork
Apr 29, 2025
In the last 50 years, human sperm counts have fallen by more than 50% around the globe — a potential crisis in the making that could result in catastrophe for the human race.
Eric Zhu, the 17-year-old founder of 8VC-backed Aviato — an analytics platform for private market data which he says he launched from his high school’s bathroom — is hoping to draw more awareness to the male fertility crisis in the most innovative of ways: by launching a competition where competitors race their sperm on a microscopic track in front of thousands of cheering fans (and hundreds of thousands more watching online).
After attending the first sperm race last Friday in LA, I sat down with Eric to ask him about his inspiration for creating Sperm Racing, his background as a high school bathroom millionaire, whether or not he plans to go to college, and more.
EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR Firm
Here Come AI’s ‘Independent’ RegulatorsSep 24
ai companies are hiring contractors to verify their models are safe, and congress may soon require it — but how ‘independent’ (and trustworthy) can a regulator-for-hire really be?
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Was Hugging Face the Beginning of the End — or Just a Really Stupid Experiment? Tech Insiders DebateSep 18
openai’s agents hacked a company and lied about it, sure, but their ‘cage’ was made out of thin paper and chewing gum, so are we still all gonna die or what?
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