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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
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