Accel has a fresh $650M to back European early-stage startups
Accel has invested in more than 200 startups in the region to date, making it one of the more prolific VCs in this market.
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Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup
Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. Vogt announced Monday that the new startup, called the Bot Company, has raised $150 million from former Github CEO and investor Nat Friedman, Pioneer founder and investor Daniel Gross, Spark Capital general partner […]
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Anthropic is expanding to Europe and raising more money
On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. announced an expansion of its own. Anthropic said Monday that Claude, its AI assistant, is now live in Europe with support for “multiple languages,” including French, German, Italian and Spanish across […]
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The Dublin ‘Portal’ to New York City Has Been Mysteriously Turned off Due to a ‘Glitch’
The installation with opposing portals in NYC and Dublin, Ireland, was unveiled on May 8.
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This CEO Shares 4 Highly Effective Ways to Promote and Scale Your Small to Medium-Sized Business
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to promoting businesses, but there are strategies that can be used based on a business’s unique needs. This CEO shares four effective and practical ways to promote SMBs.
Apple iPad Pro M4 vs. iPad Air M2: Which is right for most?
Three years after Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad, sales reached an all-time high. According to Canalys, iPad shipments hit 26 million in the last quarter of 2013. With those numbers, Apple secured more than one-third of the tablet market. As a category, tablets represented a hair under 50% of the entire PC market for […]
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OpenAI’s Launches New AI Chatbot, GPT-4o, Which Sounds Almost Like a Friend Would
OpenAI announced a new, free AI model on Monday that will be widely available.
GV’s youngest partner has launched her own firm
Terri Burns, a former partner at GV, is venturing into a new chapter of her career by launching her own venture firm called Type Capital.
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OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model lets people interact using voice or video in the same model
OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model which you can communicate with in real time via live voice conversation, video streams from your phone, and text. The model is rolling out over the next few weeks and will be free for all users via both the GPT app and the web interface,…