Others

Rabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works

October 4, 2023
What if you could interact with any piece of software using natural language? Imagine typing in a prompt and having AI translate the instructions into machine-comprehendable commands, executing tasks on a PC or phone to accomplish the goal that you just described? That’s the idea behind Rabbit, a rebranding of Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla’s […]

Yubico can now ship pre-registered security keys to its enterprise users

October 4, 2023
Physical security keys remain one of the best ways to secure user accounts, but the fact that new users have to register them before they can use them often adds quite a bit of friction. Yubico, the company behind the ubiquitous FIDO-certified YubiKeys, is now making this significantly easier by giving its enterprise users the […]

Resy and Eater co-founder raises $24M for Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty platform

October 4, 2023
Blackbird Labs, a hospitality tech company whose platform helps restaurants stay in touch with guests and incentivize them to dine out more frequently, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from QED, Union Square Ventures, Shine, Variant and others and restaurant groups Quality Branded, […]

Yahoo spins out Vespa, its search tech, into an independent company

October 4, 2023
Yahoo, otherwise known as the company that pays my salary (full disclosure: Yahoo owns TC), today announced that it’s spinning off Vespa, the big data serving engine, into an independent venture. Joe Bratseth, previously a VP architect in the big data and AI group at Yahoo and one of the main contributors to Vespa, has […]

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprises, raises $12M

October 4, 2023
Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $12 million in a funding round — a tranche smaller than Opsera’s previous — led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures and others. Bringing the company’s total raised to $31.3 million, the new cash will be put toward […]

EU lawmakers take aim at ‘arbitrary’ decisions by Big Tech in Media Freedom Act vote

October 4, 2023
Mainstream social media platforms could face limits on their ability to take down independent journalism that violates their terms and conditions under a proposal agreed by European Union lawmakers yesterday. In a vote Tuesday, the European parliament set its negotiating position for upcoming talks with the Council on the bloc’s draft Media Freedom Act — […]