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The Download: what Trump’s tariffs mean for climate tech, and hacking AI agents
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. Trump’s tariffs will deliver a big blow to climate tech US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ratcheting…
February 2024
Microsoft invests in yet another AI company
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, focused on startup and venture capital news that matters. We pull the top stories from the week thus far, and give […]
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Totango and Catalyst are merging to build a customer success powerhouse
One of the interesting aspects of this deal is that no money is changing hands.
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Coverdash gathers insurance’s biggest carriers so SMBs can get coverage in minutes
A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and customer growth.
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This popular learning software condenses ideas and strategies from the world’s best-selling books and quickly offers key points of emphasis.
What Is the “Hottest” Franchise to Buy?
There has to be a “best” franchise and a “hottest” industry, right? Well, sorry, there is not. Franchise expert Tim Parmeter explains why.
The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competition
Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”. The event is now well and truly inside the Borg Starship that is MWC, and every year runs a startup competition aimed at finding the ‘best startups’ around the globe. Thus, […]
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Turns out you can use kombucha to make eco-friendly thread
It’s not everyday you come across kombucha playing a starring role in potential industrial disruption. But here at 4YFN in MWC we got chatting to Laura Freixas about her PhD research project that’s using a base of the fermented hipster tea to “upcycle” organic waste into filaments. Once processed these biodegradable threads can be knitted […]
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StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs
Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with open access models such as Meta’s CodeLlama — at an astonishing rate. But the tools are far from ideal. Many aren’t free. Others are, but only under licenses that preclude them from being used in common commercial contexts. Perceiving […]
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SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models
SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new generative AI product geared toward enterprise customers. SambaNova today announced Samba-1, an AI-powered system designed for tasks like text rewriting, coding, language translation and more. The company’s calling the […]
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