The Best Leaders and Most Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Ignore These 6 Startup Strategies
The best entrepreneurs try to be radically honest, take personal responsibility and be transparent with themselves and their stakeholders.
Why Young Entrepreneurs Are Flocking to Franchising — and What It Means for Your Brand
Younger entrepreneurs are reshaping the franchising landscape, bringing technology fluency, a desire for purpose-driven work and a fresh approach to business ownership.
OpenAI to remove ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice
OpenAI is removing one of the voices used by ChatGPT after users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson, the company announced on Monday. The voice, called Sky, is now being paused after OpenAI used it when demoing its new GPT-4o model last week. “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a […]
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ChatGPT’s mobile app revenue saw biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch
Consumer demand for the latest AI technology is heating up. The launch of OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-4o, has now driven the company’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the model being freely available on the web. GPT-4o, launched last Monday, can handle text, speech, and video, and delivers real-time responsiveness and a range […]
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Here’s How to Write Your Own Formula for Success
Scott Kaplan, a self-made entrepreneur, shares his remarkable story of success and perseverance on ‘The Jeff Fenster Show.’
Maximize Data Management with a High-Speed Drive for $78
This high-capacity dual USB A and C drive lets users with different device types share work easier.
Bumble buys community building app Geneva to expand further into friendships
Dating app maker Bumble has acquired Geneva, an online platform built around forming real-world groups and clubs. The company said that the deal is designed to help it expand its focus from “one-to-one connections to groups and communities” — friendships, in other words. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the announcement comes shortly […]
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The Download: GPT-4o’s polluted Chinese training data, and astronomy’s AI challenge
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. GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o last Monday, some Chinese speakers started to notice that something seemed off about this newest version of…
CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security
More cybersecurity consolidation coming your way, with bigger players picking up startups that will help them bolt on tech to meet the ever-expanding attack surface for enterprises as they move more activity into the cloud. In the latest development, CyberArk — one of the army of larger security companies founded out of Israel — is […]
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Astronomers are enlisting AI to prepare for a data downpour
In deserts across Australia and South Africa, astronomers are planting forests of metallic detectors that will together scour the cosmos for radio signals. When it boots up in five years or so, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory will look for new information about the universe’s first stars and the different stages of galactic evolution. But…
OpenseedVC, which backs operators in Africa and Europe starting their companies, reaches first close of $10M fund
Founder-market fit is one of the most crucial factors in a startup’s success, and operators (someone involved in the day-to-day operations of a startup) turned founders have an almost unfair advantage in finding that fit. Data shows that a lack of expertise and business acumen in founders contributes to failed VC investments. The same principle applies […]
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