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Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round
Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and track brand campaigns are limited by how many influencers they […]
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Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers
The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.
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Shopify transfers its US listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq
Nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it’s transitioning its U.S. listing to the Nasdaq. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, Shopify said it is removing its Class A shares […]
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Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity
There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. At least three AI labs — Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience — claim to have used AI to generate studies that were accepted to ICLR workshops. At conferences like ICLR, workshop organizers typically review studies for publication […]
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Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks
Prezent has raised $20 million in an all-equity funding to build specialized presentation models and expand its footprint into new markets.
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US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for the first time
The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscriber mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a new report by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). The subscriber number was up from 96.8 million in 2023, with year-on-year growth of roughly 3%. RIAA’s report said that these numbers […]
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Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management
Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the founding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury and more. When you […]
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Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing
While Rippling and Deel duke it out in the field and in the courtroom alleging illegal sales and marketing tactics, here’s another way to boost business growth: pick up a massive sum of cash to expand your operations in those areas. Factorial, the Barcelona-based “unicorn” startup that provides an all-in-one HR platform in the cloud […]
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