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Contributor Thoughts: What CEOs Still Get Wrong About AI

Contributor Thoughts: What CEOs Still Get Wrong About AI

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Anton is CEO of Huper, an AI startup based in Atlanta whose platform gives every leader a digital chief of staff. The productivity gains we’re seeing from AI are very real, but the problem is those gains aren’t showing up in the places that

Your Guide to Atlanta Tech Week 2026: Events, Panels & Meetups

Your Guide to Atlanta Tech Week 2026: Events, Panels & Meetups

In 2026, it certainly seems like every city has a Tech Week. And next week, it is Atlanta’s turn. Atlanta Tech Week is back with a full list of events, summits, and networking events. Like in years past, Atlanta Tech Week serves as a passport for the Metro area,

How Coder Helps Enterprises Securely Adapt To The AI Age

How Coder Helps Enterprises Securely Adapt To The AI Age

Hypepotamus is proud to have Coder as a partner for our publication. You can learn more about partnership opportunities here. How code gets written and deployed inside of companies is changing rapidly in our AI Age. And with that comes a new challenge: How do they safely adopt AI tools

July 2026 Southeast Startup Funding, Acquisitions and Tech News

July 2026 Southeast Startup Funding, Acquisitions and Tech News

The month of July brought funding headlines from cybersecurity, FinTech, MedTech, music technology, and defense startups. For Hypepotamus, the month brought interviews about international expansion, new approaches to startup funding, and a field trip to a center of tech history. It also was a month where we launched our new

Atlanta's Avant South 2026 Conference Returns With OpenAI, NVIDIA Speaker

Atlanta's Avant South 2026 Conference Returns With OpenAI, NVIDIA Speaker

Avant South, the City of Atlanta's annual technology and innovation conference, is back for its fourth year on October 12-13, 2026, and ready to engage Atlanta's tech talent pool. This year's speaker list reads like a shortlist of the people currently deciding how

Editor's Note #1: Things are changing at Hypepotamus. Join us on this next chapter.

Editor's Note #1: Things are changing at Hypepotamus. Join us on this next chapter.

Hi Hypepotamus readers, Fourteen years ago, we launched Hype to provide Atlanta entrepreneurs physical space they needed to grow and evolved shortly thereafter to become a digital publication covering the underreported Innovation Ecosystem across the Southeast. In this time we’ve grown to: * 1+ million annual site views * 60k+ social

A Month Of Funding Headlines: June 2026

A Month Of Funding Headlines: June 2026

As we start the last Friday of June, it is time to look back at the month that was. Even with summer now in full swing, Southeast’s startups still made headlines on funding. These are the startups that made moves in June of 2026: Top Funding Stories * Optura (Nashville

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