Rowan Cheung

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Founder at The Rundown AI

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Elizabeth Holmes' partner has a blood-testing startup

3 days ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Billy Evans, partner of incarcerated Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has reportedly raised millions for a new blood-testing health startup called Haemanthus. While Evans says that Holmes has no involvement, the stealth startup claims to have developed a cutting-edge device that uses lasers and AI to analyze blood, saliva, and urine samples for early cancer detection. Déjà vu, anyone?
Netflix gets TikTok-ified

1 week ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Netflix is soon rolling out its first major overhaul in more than a decade with a home page redesign, an AI search experience, and a TikTok-like vertical feed on mobile. The new UI is designed to keep you forever bingeing on its content, never hitting the “cancel subscription” button—but now that Netflix is dipping into short-form video feeds, does it aim to compete with TikTok and Instagram too?
Apple gets ready to fold

1 week ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Apple is planning a major shakeup of its iPhone business — with new models, including a long-rumored foldable iPhone, and a new release timeline designed to keep consumers wanting more. With sales slowing, AI struggles, and looming Trump tariffs, will a whole new batch of iPhone form factors be enough to drive upgrades?
Exclusive: UiPath's age of agentic automation

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The software world just got a major agentic upgrade with enterprise automation leader UiPath’s latest announcement. The company unveiled a new platform for agentic automation that expands the role of digital workers beyond routine tasks — and towards intelligent AI agents that can reason, adapt, and collaborate in more human-like ways.
Amazon kicks off space race with satellite launch

2 weeks ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Amazon just launched the first batch of Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit, kicking off its quest to blanket the globe with high-speed connectivity from space. In a bold leap to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink in satellite internet, can Amazon carve out its own place in the final frontier, or are things up there about to get a lot messier?
China declares AI independence

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Chinese president Xi Jinping just hit the accelerator on a ānational systemā to build home-grown chips, software, and AI talent ā with no U.S. supply chain required. With rumors of breakthrough domestic chips and a potential second 'DeepSeek moment' approaching, the U.S. lead in the AI race may be tighter than ever.
Anthropic questions AI consciousness

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Anthropic just took the AI consciousness debate from science fiction to serious research — launching a new program to develop frameworks for assessing potential model welfare. With their own researcher estimating a 15% chance that models are already conscious, are we nearing the existential debate on whether digital minds deserve ethical treatment?
Netflix wants to be in the trillion-dollar club

3 weeks ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Netflix wants to join the trillion-dollar club alongside Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft—and its co-CEO says the company is on track, thanks to a rapidly evolving business model. But as the streaming wars intensify and growth slows, can Netflix sustain the breakneck pace needed to reach that audacious milestone?
New AI startup wants to automate everyone

3 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI automation conversation just got uncomfortably direct — with Epoch co-founder Tamay Besiroglu launching Mechanize, a startup with the explicit goal of replacing human workers entirely. But with job losses already mounting and user trust in AI still lacking, getting the masses on board with the utopian dream of abundance from mass automation may be tougher than expected.
AI cheating startup raises millions

3 weeks ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Chungin “Roy” Lee, the 21-year-old co-founder of Cluely, just announced that his startup has raised $5.3M for its controversial AI tool to “cheat on everything.”Cluely, which also dropped a clip showing Lee using the tech to impress a date, argues that AI cheating tools will become as accepted as calculators and spellcheckers. Is this the natural evolution of human-AI collaboration, or are we living in an episode of Black Mirror?