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Mill’s redesigned food waste bin really is faster and quieter than before

Google admits its AI Overviews need work, but we’re all helping it beta test

a16z-backed ZeroMark wants to give soldiers guns that don’t miss against drones

You’ve spoken! Meet the Disrupt 2024 breakout session audience choice winners

Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020

The women in AI making a difference

Mental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B

Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million

Spyware maker pcTattletale shutters after data breach

AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people

Rock band’s hidden hacking-themed website gets hacked

MARS doubles down on India’s Infra.Market with new $50M investment

Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales

Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet

Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B from Valor, a16z, and Sequoia

Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia

A venture capital firm looks back on changing norms, from board seats to backing rival startups

Women in AI: Miriam Vogel stresses the need for responsible AI

What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?

The ups and downs of investing in Europe, with VCs Saul Klein and Raluca Ragab

Scarlett Johansson brought receipts to the OpenAI controversy

AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China

Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere.

From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year

Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good, leading users to demand refunds

X should bring back stars, not hide ‘likes’

$6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice

Peter Thiel-founded Valar Ventures raised a $300 million fund, half the size of its last one

Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers

Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is out

Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users

Microsoft’s new ‘Volumetric Apps’ for Quest headsets extend Windows apps into the 3D space

The ‘vote Trump’ spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr

NYC-Dublin real-time video portal reopens with some fixes to prevent inappropriate behavior

Contour Venture Partners, an early investor in Datadog and Movable Ink, lowers the target for its fifth fund

Meta’s Oversight Board takes its first Threads case

SeekOut, a recruiting startup last valued at $1.2 billion, lays off 30% of its workforce

OpenseedVC, which backs operators in Africa and Europe starting their companies, reaches first close of $10M fund

Pine Labs gets Singapore court approval to shift base to India

UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk

Why companies are turning to internal hackathons

Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses

OpenAI and Google lay out their competing AI visions

With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back

Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo

Meta’s latest experiment copies BeReal and Snapchat’s core ideas

Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine

Indiebio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand?

Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.

Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again

Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator

Google’s image-generating AI gets an upgrade

Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video

GV’s youngest partner has launched her own firm

ChatGPT’s new face is a black hole

GM’s Cruise ramps up robotaxi testing in Phoenix

‘Got that boomer!’: How cyber-criminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts

Permira is taking Squarespace private in $6.6 billion deal

Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and genAI products to Indian businesses

Go on, let bots date other bots

Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided

U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety

At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech

The buzziest EV IPO of the year is a Chinese automaker

VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its lowest point

Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse

Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others

Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

India’s Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, seeks new funding at 70% discount

Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division

DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion

Apple iPad event: What to expect

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe, and why OpenAI is not a competitor

Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit

Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team

Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses

Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson

Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025

EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M

How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone

10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts

Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool

Your AI-native startup ain’t the same as a typical SaaS company

Tiger Global-backed Innovaccer in talks to raise $250M in new funding, sources say

Snapchat’s ‘My AI’ chatbot can now set in-app reminders and countdowns

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference