Coffee and Productivity: A Match Made in Heaven?
Worldwide, coffee is among the most popular beverages. In fact, 167 million coffee bags were consumed worldwide from 2020 to 2021 alone. Does that really seem shocking to you? It…
The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math
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. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of…
5 Surefire Ways to Grow Your Remote Business
Many people dream of having their own business, and today, that dream often extends to doing so remotely. But what does it take to make that dream a reality?
Franchise Legalese Defined — A Deep Dive Into Franchising Definitions
Before you can decide if you should franchise, find out exactly what you’re getting yourself into.
Everyone loves Anthropic
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. We are back from Disrupt — more on the winner of Battlefield here […]
Tinder snobs can now pay $499 per month to be matched with the ‘most-sought after’ profiles
Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the ability to be seen by more users, including Tinder’s “most sought after profiles,” the ability to direct message others without matching, and other VIP-level features. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, […]
OpenAI gives ChatGPT a voice for verbal conversations
ChatGPT is evolving into much more than a text-based search engine, with OpenAI announcing today that it’s adding new voice and image-based smarts to the mix. The wildly popular generative AI assistant has been one of the biggest technology success stories of recent times since its debut some nine months ago, allowing anyone to generate […]
Getty Images promises its new AI contains no copyrighted art
Getty Images is so confident its new generative AI model is free of copyrighted content that it will cover any potential intellectual-property disputes for its customers. The generative AI system, announced today, was built by Nvidia and is trained solely on images in Getty’s image library. It does not include logos or images that have…
Its First Year, This Startup Struggled to Get 75 Clients. Five Years Later, They Have 18,000. Here’s How They Did It.
Financial planning startup Facet knew they were targeting a huge untapped market. But getting clients wasn’t as easy as they hoped.
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Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review
For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature — scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic — take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team. But it doesn’t […]