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Founders building in the healthcare space can’t just build fast and break things. Timelines stretch longer, stakes are higher, and success depends on navigating systems that reward rigor over speed.  That’s exactly the reality Robhy Bustami, co-founder and CEO of BioticsAI, has been building in. His company is developing an AI copilot for ultrasound that helps detect fetal abnormalities, an area where misdiagnosis rates remain surprisingly high. Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape. BioticsAI started scrappy.…

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement follows closely behind news from General Motors, which revealed yesterday that Gemini is coming to approximately 4 million vehicles from model year 2022 and newer, spanning brands like Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC. However, today’s announcement didn’t name specific automakers, suggesting that Gemini won’t be limited to GM vehicles. The rollout will begin in the U.S. with English-language…

Surviving the long road to FDA approval isn’t just about building great technology — it’s about keeping your team motivated, finding the right investors, and learning how to operate when timelines are uncertain. This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Robhy Bustami, co-founder and CEO of BioticsAI, a Startup Battlefield-winning company building an AI copilot for ultrasound to help detect fetal abnormalities. From a $100,000 prototype to FDA clearance, Bustami shares what it actually takes to build in one of the most regulated industries in the world. In this episode, they break down what it really looks…

Financial services platform Stripe is introducing a digital wallet specifically built for the AI era, where autonomous agents can perform tasks that include shopping, paying for reservations, buying tickets, and more. At its annual conference this week, the company introduced Link, a wallet that allows you to connect various payment methods, track your spending, and view your recurring subscriptions. It also lets you integrate your AI agents so they can spend on your behalf, securely. Link, which is available on the web, iOS, and Android, offers many things that you might expect from a digital wallet. You can connect payment…

Surviving the long road to FDA approval isn’t just about building great technology — it’s about keeping your team motivated, finding the right investors, and learning how to operate when timelines are uncertain. This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Robhy Bustami, co-founder and CEO of BioticsAI, a Startup Battlefield-winning company building an AI copilot for ultrasound to help detect fetal abnormalities. From a $100,000 prototype to FDA clearance, Bustami shares what it actually takes to build in one of the most regulated industries in the world. In this episode, they break down what it really looks…

Artificial intelligence continues to advance at a dizzying clip, forcing enterprises to develop and release new products quicker than ever or risk becoming irrelevant to a faster-moving competitor. Salesforce believes it has found a strategy that allows it to keep up even if it isn’t clear where AI is headed next. The customer management software giant is crowdsourcing its AI roadmap in real time. Salesforce is certainly not the only company to work intimately with its customers for feedback on its products. However, it’s notable considering the sheer size of the company, the pace of new product launches or fixes…

Elon Musk’s X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to roll out on Thursday. The tech company initially struggled to grow ad revenue in the first few years of Musk’s reign, leading it to shift its focus to other monetization channels, including AI and subscriptions. However, forecasts from eMarketer indicate that X’s ad business has been turning around as of late, with estimated ad revenue of $2.26 billion in 2025, rising to $2.46 billion in 2026. While that’s still half the size of Twitter’s 2021 ad business, it’s headed…

Sam Altman once spent $14 million of his own money to study universal basic income. Now, the OpenAI CEO says he’s not sold on it. Loading audio narration… “I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did,” Altman told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during an interview for his “The Most Interesting Thing in AI” series.Altman said that while a fixed cash payment may sound nice, it won’t meet what society will truly need as AI adoption rises, sparking a potential upheaval in the labor market.”I think just like a fixed cash payment, although useful…

Meta doesn’t come up much in discussions of the top AI products these days, but its products are still benefiting from the ongoing surge of interest in the technology. The company’s business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per week as of late March, up from 1 million in the beginning of this year, Meta said during its first-quarter conference call on Wednesday. The growth comes as the company recently expanded the beta program of its business AI assistant in the U.S., EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Meta isn’t monetizing its business AI tools yet, offering them for free to…

In the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, the first sign of the “bursting” came when the leaders — like Amazon.com — started missing projections. Flash forward some 26 years, and we learned Monday that OpenAI is missing revenue and user projections, according to the Wall Street Journal.So the question for the OpenAI community — and the much broader community fueling and feasting on the AI market bubble — is whether OpenAI’s problems are limited to OpenAI… or a sign that this first jaw-dropping era of AI euphoria and growth is coming to an end.Playing catch-upThe Journal’s story reported that…