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OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is reportedly set to meet with China’s Xi Jinping
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QED leads $11M investment in Nigerian fintech Raenest
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Bird cuts 120 jobs as part of ‘strategic realignment’
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India to launch new domain name for banks to fight digital fraud
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European AI startups raised $8 billion in 2024
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Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase
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Shein app returns to India via Reliance deal
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European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44 million to its Series B
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Naboo secures $21M for its concierge-style corporate event booking platform
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Documents show UK wooed a16z for five years
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TravelPerk raises $200M as valuation nearly doubles to $2.7B
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Real estate firms pivot to energy development amid booming data center demand
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Madrona just announced its biggest fund ever, closing on $770M as other venture funds grow smaller
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WhatsApp wins reprieve in India over user data sharing
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Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products
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DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks
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Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos
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Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
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Apple brings Store app to Indian market
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TikTok ban poised to be delayed as Trump explores ways to extend deadline
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In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
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Nelly raises $51 million to digitalize medical practices across Europe
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A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase raises $3M for his next venture
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China is reportedly open to Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US
Chinese government officials have reportedly discussed a scenario where ByteDance sells TikTok’s United States arm to Elon Musk, should the Supreme Court uphold the law […]
Raspberry AI raises $24M from a16z to accelerate fashion design
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UK in-home healthcare provider Cera raises $150M to expand its AI platform
Around the world, public healthcare systems have struggled to reset post-pandemic, and in particular, the increasingly aged populations in Western countries are putting pressure on […]
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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
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Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit
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TikTok pleads its case against sell-or-ban law before Supreme Court
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Every smartphone in LA accidentally received a wildfire evacuation alert
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Comcast and other TV streamers are now chasing YouTube’s ad dollars instead of the other way around
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Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data
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US sanctions Chinese cyber firm linked to Flax Typhoon hacks
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A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded and burst into flames Wednesday morning just outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas has left one person dead and […]
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Judge allows California’s ban on addictive feeds for minors to go into effect
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Tech services firm WWT acquires Canadian IT provider Softchoice in all-cash deal
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ByteDance appears to be skirting US restrictions to buy Nvidia chips: Report
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Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down
Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that left thousands of customers locked out of their accounts after it suddenly shut down last week, will be acquired […]
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Bench shuts down, leaving thousands of businesses without access to accounting and tax docs
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Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI
Contractors working to improve Google’s Gemini AI are comparing its answers against outputs produced by Anthropic’s competitor model Claude, according to internal correspondence seen by […]
Hyundai is giving away free Tesla NACs adapters to its EV customers
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Honda and Nissan plan major merger focused on ‘intelligence and electrification’
Japanese car giants Honda and Nissan are working out the details of a major merger that could create the world’s third-largest automaker, as the companies […]
Elon Musk’s X jacks up Premium+ prices by 37.5%
X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022. […]
Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations
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Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case
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Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration
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Swizzle Fund raises $5M for inaugural fund addressing women’s health and wealth
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Tesla is courting Texas cities to test its promised robotaxi service
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Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry’s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant discount from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the […]
Revisiting 19th-century Paris with VR
While I have fond memories of past efforts to combine VR content with real-world locations, I’d assumed the pandemic had put those ambitions to an […]
Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline
Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a […]
Rhode Island says personal data likely breached in social services cyberattack
State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online portal for social services, with […]
Why Marc Andreessen was ‘very scared’ after meeting with the Biden administration about AI
After famed investor Marc Andreessen met with government officials about the future of tech last May, he was “very scared” and described the meetings as […]
X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
XAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, may be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI. But that’s not stopping it from shipping new products — on […]
Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises
In October, Google started piloting a version of NotebookLM, its viral AI note-taking and research app, aimed at businesses. Now, the company’s bringing NotebookLM to […]
Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview
Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over its […]
Zomato faces $95 million India tax bill
Zomato, India’s top food delivery and quick commerce platform, has been slapped with a tax bill of $94.5 million. The Indian tax authority has ordered […]
ChatGPT and Sora experience major outage
OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API are experiencing a major outage, according to the company’s status page. The company says it’s identified a […]
Snapchat+ subscribers can now keep messages in a chat for a week
Snapchat is rolling out a few new features for Snapchat+ subscribers for the holiday season, the company announced on Wednesday. The features include expanded chat […]
Lina Khan’s FTC era ends; Andrew Ferguson named chair
Andrew Ferguson, one of two Republican FTC commissioners appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden, will be the country’s next FTC chair, incoming president Donald Trump […]
Instagram rolls out ‘trial reels’ that aren’t shown to a creator’s followers
Instagram is officially rolling out “trial reels” to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don’t appear to their […]
Automattic acquires WPAI, a startup that creates AI solutions for WordPress
WordPress hosting company Automattic said Monday that it is acquiring WPAI, a startup that builds AI solutions for WordPress, at an undisclosed price. WPAI has […]
US medical device giant Artivion says hackers stole files during cybersecurity incident
Artivion, a medical device company that manufactures implantable tissues for cardiac and vascular transplant applications, says its services have been “disrupted” due to a cybersecurity […]
Apple’s Vision Pro might add support for PlayStation VR controllers
Apple is looking to make its Vision Pro mixed reality device more attractive to gamers and game developers, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s […]
Queer-founded brand discovery platform Famm launches a LinkedIn for the LGBTQ+ community
Famm, the discovery platform for queer-owned brands, was created by BIPOC queer married couple Cat Perez and Marianna Di Regolo to help users find LGBTQ-owned […]
Google says its new AI model outperforms the top weather forecast system
Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called GenCast. In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind researchers said they found […]
As YC retreats from Africa, alumni launch accelerators to fill the gap
The influential accelerator Y Combinator made a splash in Africa in 2020 when it shined its light on the market and began to accept startups […]
What are the risks of outsourcing circuit card assembly?
risks of outsourcing circuit card assembly As you engage with your smartphone, tablet, or computer this moment, you are engaging with a device whose unsung […]
Grok is now free for all X users
X users no longer need to pay for X Premium to use the service’s AI chatbot, Grok. Instead, X is allowing users 10 free prompts […]
Google Photos launches a ‘2024 Recap’ for a look back at this year’s memories
Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews from other streamers and social apps, you […]
GitLab names Bill Staples as its new CEO
GitLab, the popular developer and security platform, has named a new CEO, Bill Staples, effective immediately. Staples, who’s also been appointed to the company’s board […]
Apple to shell out $1 billion on a manufacturing plant in Indonesia
Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few […]
Cleerly raises $106M from Insight Partners for AI heart health early detection
Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks are unaware that […]
DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games
DeepMind, Google’s AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds. Called Genie 2, the model — […]
‘Surreal Elderhood’ using OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora
Katsukokoiso.AI is a project from professional photographer Eugenio Marongiu, an alpha tester on OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora. Marongiu used the unreleased Sora model to create […]
Spotify Wrapped 2024 is almost here, but first let’s explore all the copycats
Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature — which is coming out soon — provides listeners with a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits, and it has […]
KPay, a financial management platform for SMEs, raises $55M Series A
Sometimes, the easiest way to find a great idea for a startup is to look beyond the current problem you’re solving for your customers. That’s […]
Tesla updates include Apple Watch app and fart prank
Tesla has revealed an app designed for the Apple Watch and says it should be live by next week. The Tesla app for the Apple […]
Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back in person
As promised, startup accelerator Y Combinator’s imminent Demo Day will be happening in person. In fact, YC seems to have kicked off the IRL return […]
Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, […]
Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation
As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky […]
Black Friday hits a record $74.4B in sales online, up 5% on last year
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued into […]
Canadian news companies sue OpenAI
A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly […]
Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
Sequoia is closing in on making its first deal in India and the broader Asia Pacific region since its split with former partners, according to […]
Early Thanksgiving online sales numbers are up 7% YoY to $15.6B, on par with pre-pandemic trends
Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start to the most important sales period for retailers, and so far, the indication is that […]
Australia approves law banning social media for under 16s
In a step likely to be tracked around the world, Australia has approved legislation that will ban the use of social media for children under […]
Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024 says Ofcom
Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K., according to figures […]
Pony AI set for Nasdaq debut at $4.55B valuation
Chinese autonomous driving technology company Pony AI will start trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday at an offering price of $13 per share, the higher […]
Figure 02 performing tasks autonomously
Robotics startup Figure released a video update showcasing their Figure 02 humanoid robot autonomously performing tasks at HQ for a BMW use case. © 2024 […]
Perplexity mulls getting into hardware
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X yesterday that he […]
Google Developer Program gains new features, but you’ll have to pay for them
In June, Google announced the Google Developer Program, a free program to give devs access to resources designed to help them build applications using Google […]
Appcharge raises $26M to help gaming apps cut out Apple and Google from virtual goods revenues
As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a startup called Appcharge has raised some […]
Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder […]
Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC
VC Jenny Fielding, co-founder of Everywhere Ventures and former Techstars managing director, was basically trolling on X when she posted, “Y’all have strong opinions about […]
How a digital “you” can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away. […]
Trump’s tariff threats don’t scare this Mexican fintech
Mexico’s economic development — turbocharged by the amount of nearshoring in recent years — has made it fertile ground for startups. But the trend is […]
