It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations
Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
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. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new…
Yupp.ai shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp.ai is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.
The Strategy P.F. Chang’s New CMO Is Betting On — And What It Means for Your Business
Here’s an inside look at Holly Smith’s first 90 days at P.F. Chang’s and how it can help your marketing team.
She Was Working Until 3 a.m. Every Quarter — What She Built Next Should Be a Lesson for Every CEO
Learn how one employee’s DIY AI solution serves as a blueprint for our business’s mission to automate repetitive tasks and empower human creativity.
Most PR Firms Are Sleepwalking Into the AI Era. Here’s What They’re Missing.
The AI era doesn’t reward great media coverage or great SEO or great content; it rewards firms that have built all three into a single, coherent system. Most haven’t.
He’s LinkedIn’s First Puzzlemaster. Here’s How His Games Benefit Their Business — and Your Brain.
Puzzles are a way to drive up engagement on LinkedIn and keep users coming back for more.
Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?
Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.
Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs
The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.
Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users
Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.
Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down
Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.