Elizabeth Chambers of BIRD Bakery on How to Expand in Business with Authenticity
Interview with BIRD Bakery founder Elizabeth Chambers about expanding internationally, social media storytelling, and embracing hospitality in every moment.
Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
Will Bath & Body Works (BBWI) Beat Earnings? And How Should You Trade It?
While specialty retailer Bath & Body Works (BBWI) saw year-over-year declines in sales and net income in the first quarter, it surpassed analysts’ expectations for earnings per share. Furthermore, the…
Moniepoint cleared to acquire Kenyan fintech Kopo Kopo
The competition regulator in Kenya has given Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech that provides business payments and banking platforms, the green light to acquire Kopo Kopo, a Kenyan-based company offering payments services and credit to businesses. Following the approval by Competition Authority of Kenya (CA), Moniepoint (formerly TeamApt) will expand its services to Kenya continuing its […]
Is it Time to Take a Break From Real Estate Investments?
Up to this point, investments may have been easy, with a steady flow of income to keep real estate investors happy. However, recent fluctuations and unstable market conditions could have…
Grip Security raises $41M to help enterprises manage their SaaS identity risk
Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the “industry’s first SaaS security control plane,” today announced that it has raised a $41 million Series B funding round led by Third Point Ventures. Previous investors YL Ventures, Intel Capital and The Syndicate Group also participated in […]
Cerby lands $17M to manage access to ‘nonstandard’ enterprise apps
Bel Lepe, a former Google software engineer, tells me that it always seemed risky to him that there were apps business users needed and used, but that IT and security teams were unwilling to approve them because of their lack of support for identity standards. It’s a legitimate issue. According to a Ponemon Institute survey, […]
How this VC evaluates generative AI startups
The launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022 propelled our world into the Age of AI, and the tech industry will never be the same.
Why we should all be rooting for boring AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I’m back from a wholesome week off picking blueberries in a forest. So this story we published last week about the messy ethics of AI in warfare is just the antidote, bringing my…
Preserving Israel’s high-tech ecosystem: A path to upholding democracy
With the specter of illiberal democracy looming, the very fabric of the nation stands at a critical crossroads.
Why salt marshes could help save Venice
Venice, Italy, is suffering from a combination of subsidence—the city’s foundations slowly sinking into the mud on which they are built—and rising sea levels. In the worst-case scenario, it could disappear underwater by the year 2100. Alessandro Gasparotto, an environmental engineer, is one of the many people trying to keep that from happening. Standing on…