Monthly Archives: May 2024

Startups Weekly: Musk raises $6B for AI and the fintech dominoes are falling

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. In a twist that shocks absolutely no one and thrills pyromaniacs … Continue reading

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A16z-backed ZeroMark wants to give soldiers guns that don’t miss against drones

The product, which ZeroMark calls a “fire control system,” has two components: a small computer that has sensors, like lidar and electro-optical, and a motorized buttstock. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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What is the EU’s AI Office? New Body Formed to Oversee the Rollout of General Purpose Models and AI Act

The AI Office will be responsible for enforcing the rules of the AI Act, ensuring its implementation across Member States, funding AI and robotics innovation and more.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: RAW Dating App’s $3M angel deck

The RAW Dating App aims to shake up the dating scheme by shedding the fake, TikTok-ified, heavily filtered photos and replacing them with a more genuine, unvarnished experience. The app targets young professionals and students, particularly women aged 21 to … Continue reading

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Twitch replaces Safety Advisory Council with Twitch Ambassadors

As reported by CNBC, Twitch has replaced all nine members of its Safety Advisory Council with Twitch Ambassadors. The company is said to have met with members of the former council on May 6 to tell them all existing contracts … Continue reading

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Perplexity AI launches new tool to turn research into content

Perplexity AI has launched a new tool, Pages, that turns research into visually dynamic content. After gaining backing from Jeff Bezos in January, Perplexity has now turned its hand to creating a new tool called Pages. Geared towards creating, organizing, … Continue reading

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New AI-powered tool Showrunner lets you create your own TV shows

Users of a new tool, Showrunner, from Fable Studios can direct, star in, and actually earn money from their own AI-generated TV shows. AI production company Fable Studios today announced its new app, Showrunner, currently in its Alpha stage. The … Continue reading

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Warren Buffett is worried about potential for ‘huge losses’ in booming, but still tiny insurance market

Warren Buffett recently warned that cybersecurity insurance risks are getting overlooked as agents rush to sign up clients and ‘huge losses’ could be ahead.

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Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop Open Standard for AI Chip Components in UALink Promoter Group

Notably absent from the group is NVIDIA, which has its own equivalent technology that it may not wish to share with its closest rivals.

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‘ThreadsDeck’ arrived just in time for the Trump verdict

Yes, we’re calling it “ThreadsDeck” now. At least that’s the tag many are using to describe the new user interface for Instagram’s X competitor, Threads, which recalls the column-based format of Twitter’s old app TweetDeck (now X Pro). Two weeks … Continue reading

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