Is the ‘Return to Office’ Debate Over? Most Employees Want Flexibility, According to a New Survey.
More than half of Americans are working in the office again. But not by choice.
YouTube’s New Tool Lets Politicians Hunt Down AI Deepfakes of Themselves — Before They Go Viral
The technology launched last year for 4 million YouTube creators and is now expanding to a pilot group of government officials and candidates.
The best jigsaw puzzles to gift in 2023
Today’s jigsaw puzzles don’t always look like yesteryears’, and that’s for the best: Not all of us care for scenery, birds and flowers as much as we like Disney and Pixar, for instance. Let’s not be snobs, classic puzzles can be very enjoyable, too. But there’s a whole world that opens up when you realize […]
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Bumble announces its hiring Slack CEO Lidiane Jones as its next chief exec
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd with Slack CEO Lidiane Jones. Jones only started as CEO at Slack last year, replacing another founder CEO, Stewart Butterfield. Jones, whose background includes various […]
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The race to build tomorrow’s AI models, and signs of life in the crypto markets
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. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Here’s what we got into on […]
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The Moment This Online Sports Betting CEO Knew It Was Time to Take a Big Risk
Adrian Vella, CEO of Tipico, discusses his “no regrets” philosophy in life and business.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander represents a big bet on a future lunar economy
Travel just north of Austin, Texas, and you might find yourself in startling proximity to a lunar lander. That’s Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, a 6.6-foot-tall spacecraft that the company aims to fly next year in an inaugural mission for NASA. The spacecraft is large and boxy, with an 11.5-foot diameter and a 150-kilogram payload […]
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He Got 450,000 Newsletter Subscribers by Sharing ‘Nice News’ — Here’s How
Inside the strategy that turned positive news into Nice News, a positively growing newsletter business.
Lidl owner and Bosch Ventures co-lead $500M Series B into German AI start-up Aleph Alpha
German AI start-up Aleph Alpha has raised a Series B funding round of $500 million from a consortium of seven new investors, as well as existing investors from previous rounds. Founded in 2019, Aleph Alpha’s funding may be dwarfed by that of Microsoft-backed OpenAI ($11.3B), but the startup makes great play of the fact that […]
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Confirmed: Palo Alto has acquired Talon Cyber Security, sources say for $625M
Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired Talon Cyber Security, a specialist in building enterprise browsers for securing distributed workforces sources. Source say the deal is valued at $625 million. This is PA’s second Israeli security acquisition within a week: last Tuesday, […]
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Luxury clothing distributors get into virtual try-on tech; bag $15M Series A on a $100M valuation
Zelig users can create different outfit combinations and then save them to their profile and even share them before purchasing complete looks.
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