Give an AI-Powered Plant Identifier This Holiday Season for Only $14.97
The app comes with a lifetime subscription and makes a great gift.
Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
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Deal Dive: Bagels with a schmear of venture capital
Popup Bagels raised $8 million in venture capital this week. But why would a bagel store chain want such expensive capital?
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Shark Tank’s Most Successful Brand of All Time Wasn’t Even Supposed to Be a Business at First. Here’s How It Became One With $1 Billion in Lifetime Revenue.
Randy Goldberg and David Heath co-founded Bombas, a comfort-focused sock and apparel brand on mission to help those in need, after an eye-opening discovery on Facebook.
Secure a Gaming and TV Console Preloaded With Android 9 for Just $90
Take advantage of this limited-time deal (regularly $149) before it’s too late.
Amazon’s Tye Brady discusses generative AI, humanoid robots and mobile manipulation
A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. Last week was a busy one for robotics. We had RoboBusiness in the Bay, ROSCon in New Orleans and Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in Seattle. I ended up choosing the latter, as I’d gotten quite a bit out of […]
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Bull or Bear Market???
Indeed this is what everyone wants to know…are we still in a bull market or have we returned to bear market conditions? Or even crazier…what if the bull market was…
Instagram head says Threads API is in the works
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and experiences around Threads. Mosseri was responding to journalist Casey Newton, who was conversing with a user about a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads. The Instagram head expressed apprehension about publishers posting […]
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Catching up with Keith Rabois on the state of VC, his newest bet, and who he’s backing for president
Chances are that however busy you are, Keith Rabois is busier. He’s an active investor as a general partner at Founders Fund, the early-stage outfit co-founded 18 years ago by Peter Thiel. He’s also the CEO of OpenStore, the company that he co-founded in 202 to acquire and scale commerce brands on Shopify’s platform. And […]
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Unleash Unshakable Confidence in 7 Days: The Neuroscience-Backed Blueprint
In the cut-throat business world, self-doubt can be the difference between success and failure, costing you everything.
Twitch’s CMO says competition from rival platforms is good for creators
Though attendees grumbled about Las Vegas as a city, the community sentiment at this year’s TwitchCon was notably more optimistic than it was at last year’s convention. TwitchCon 2023 closed out a tense year for the platform, which was punctuated by rounds of layoffs, unpopular policy decisions and the sting of competitors poaching major streamers […]
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