Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s New Virtual Indoor Golf League Delays First Season After Venue Roof Collapses
The new league has several notable backers, including Alexis Ohanian, Serena and Venus Williams, Stephen Curry, and Justin Timberlake.
The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
November 2023
4 Ways to Make B2B Marketing Less Boring
Even the best B2B marketing can be forgettable and uninspiring. Instead of letting your company’s B2B efforts fall short, liven them up with four proven strategies.
Owning the earscape market with Lisa Bubbers and Anna Harman from Studs
Welcome back to Found, where we get to the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Lisa Bubbers and Anna Harman, the co-founders of the ear piercing company Studs. The duo spoke to us about: What fundraising for a brick-and-mortar company was like. How they build a new market, tapping […]
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6 Tips to Invest in Renewable Energy Now
Clean energy has never been more popular, but watching the (metaphorical) headwinds and political movements is always a good idea as you balance your portfolio.
A Jazz Critic Missed Out on a $6 Million Fortune By Selling His Apple Stock for About 1/700 of Its Value Today
“I probably should have bought those shares back when [Steve] Jobs returned to Apple.”
China’s EV upstart Li Auto hunts for chip talent in Singapore
Li Auto, a electric vehicle maker adored by young Chinese families, is stepping up its endeavors to build in-house automotive chips and has gone abroad to seek talent for the course. The eight-year-old company is currently hiring five positions in Singapore to develop silicon carbide (SiC) power modules, an electrical component that uses SiC semiconductors […]
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Tech CEO Austin Russell’s bid to buy Forbes fails
Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell’s bid to buy Forbes Global Media Holdings has ended. Integrated Whale Media Investments, the Hong Kong-based parent company of Forbes, terminated the agreement with Russell after he failed to secure enough investors to close the deal. Bloomberg was the first to report the news, citing an internal memo by […]
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eBay to gain $2.2B from sales of its shares in classified biz Adevinta
eBay is unloading its remaining shares in the online classified business Adevinta to private equity firms Permira and Blackstone for $2.2 billion in cash and 20% equity, it said. Adevinta had originally acquired eBay’s own classified business back in 2020, leaving eBay with $2.2 billion in cash and 540 million Adevinta shares. While the new deal […]
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Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 release shows the competition isn’t rubbernecking the OpenAI disaster
The OpenAI train wreck may be playing out in slow motion before our eyes, but the company’s competition isn’t sitting around gawking. Anthropic just released Claude 2.1, an improvement on its flagship large language model that keeps it competitive with the GPT series — and now has the useful added feature of “being developed by […]
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OpenAI mess exposes the dangers of vendor lock-in for startups
One thing that the OpenAI drama should teach startups is that they should never put all their eggs in one LLM basket.
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