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Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B-$3B valuation for its AI search platform, sources say
<div><p>Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at a valuation of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. The news comes on the heels of two other big fundraises that have seen the company’s valuation leapfrog […]</p>
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Elon Musk Wouldn’t Be the First Car Company Founder to Flame Out
Before there was Elon Musk, there was William Crapo Durant. Billy Durant, as he was known, built one of the world’s biggest ...
‘Arrogant Billionaire’: Elon Musk Feuds With Australian PM Over Content Takedown Orders
Australia’s Prime Minister called Elon Musk, owner of X and self-styled free-speech champion, an “arrogant billionaire.” ...
A cult or a corporation? Tesla shareholders will decide with vote on Elon Musk’s $56B payday
Shareholders will soon reveal whether Tesla is a corporation or a cult by voting on whether to make Elon Musk the highest-paid part-time CEO in history despite the stock price collapsing 40%, the ...
Musk turned Democrats off Teslas at a critical time. Here’s what they bought instead
Elon Musk is never one to shy away from a political battle, using the social media platform he owns to voice everything from ...
Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage
Australia's leader has called Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire" in an escalating feud over X's reluctance to remove footage ...
Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma
<div><p>After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that surface during the grieving process, including daunting tasks such as organizing a funeral ceremony and donating belongings, as well as scouring the internet for […]</p>
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Bump raises $3 million seed to help creators manage finances
<div><p>Bump allows creators to track income and market value, which can help them negotiate better deals and see how much money they are owed from partners.</p>
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Amazon wants to host companies’ custom generative AI models
<div><p>AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, wants to be the go-to place companies host and fine-tune their custom generative AI models. Today, AWS announced the launch of Custom Model Import (in preview), a new feature in Bedrock, AWS’ enterprise-focused suite of generative AI services, that allows organizations to import and access their in-house generative AI models […]</p>
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Successful Businesses Have This One Thing in Common
<div>I'm a professor of global healthcare entrepreneurship — here's what my research told me about a key component of a successful venture and how to leverage it.</div>
BlackRock’s IBIT achieves 70-day inflow streak milestone
BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, has achieved an impressive milestone by registering net inflows for 70 consecutive days.
This achievement places the fund among the top 10 exchange-traded funds with the longest daily inflow streaks in history, tying with the JETS ETF, which focuses on the airline industry.
On Monday, IBIT saw a net inflow of approximately $20 million, as reported by HODL15Capital and SosoValue data. This consistent performance has helped the ETF gain si
Best mods for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Warhammer 40k Darktide is a much-underappreciated game by everybody apart from those who have played it. It was a bit light on quality content when it first arrived on the scene but credit to the devs they have continued to overhaul it and take a highly promising game and start to shape it into something that could well start to rival their other big Warhammer game, Vermintide.
As ever our main source of mods is going to be the excellent Nexus Mods which we have used many, many times before. The
Hundreds of users sue Grindr for allegedly selling their HIV data to advertisers
Grindr is being sued. The LGBTQ+ dating app is accused of sharing its users’ medical data with advertisers. This data includes their HIV status. UK law firm Austen Hays filed the claim at London’s High Court yesterday. The class action lawsuit represents hundreds of users of the app. Austen Hays claims that US-based Grindr breached UK data protection law by selling sensitive data to third parties without users’ consent. Aside from medical facts, this includes info about people’s ethnicity, se
Tinder’s new ‘Share My Date’ feature explained
Tinder has announced a new safety feature called “Share My Date” which allows for one-click sharing of date plans with friends and family.
The new feature, which will be rolling out across the UK and other countries in the coming months, streamlines a process that Tinder data has found that 51% of its users do manually – sharing screenshots of dating profiles and date information.
Tinder’s chief marketing officer Melissa Hobley said: “At Tinder, we continue to release new features that aim to cr
Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the US
<div><p>Amazon said today that it has launched a new grocery delivery subscription for Prime members and customers with an EBT card (Electronic Benefit Transfer) in the U.S. if you’re living in one of the 3,500 eligible cities and towns. The company started testing grocery delivery in three locations last year: Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; and […]</p>
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Meta offers Quest OS up to third-party developers, ASUS and Lenovo among them
ASUS and Lenovo are two of the first third-party mixed reality developers to adopt Meta’ Quest OS for their own hardware.
Meta announced “a new era for mixed reality” when it opened Quest OS up to third-party developers in a move that rebrands the software to Meta Horizon OS. This comes after Meta’s Quest 3 headset delivered a massive quarterly revenue at the end of 2023. The first two companies to take up the opportunity are ASUS and Lenovo.
ASUS’s Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand is reportedly w
Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data
<div><p>Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo GenZ users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report, they noted that dating apps have become more data-hungry and intrusive. The organization studied […]</p>
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Venezuela bets on Tether cryptocurrency to skirt oil sanctions
As the United States reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela, the country’s state-run oil company PDVSA is planning to increase its reliance on digital currencies for crude and fuel exports, according to a recent Reuters report.
The U.S. Treasury Department recently declined to renew a general license, giving PDVSA’s customers and providers until May 31 to wind down transactions. This move is expected to hinder Venezuela’s efforts to increase oil output and exports, as companies will need to obtain
Dune: Awakening – Release date speculation, trailers, platforms, and everything we know
Whether you’re a book or movie lover, Dune is one of those franchises that is engrossing no matter which medium you consume it in. Despite its popularity though, there haven’t been too many video games that have explored the world of Arrakis but that all changes with Dune: Awakening.
If you want to learn more about this exciting and ambitious experience, we’ll reveal all we know about the Dune: Awakening release date, any trailers that have been released, what platforms you can play it on, and m
Adobe launches Firefly 3 with full AI image generation in Photoshop
Adobe is putting the image generation capabilities of its newly unveiled Firefly Image 3 AI model directly into Photoshop.Read More