‘Powerful, More Affordable Option’: Apple Reveals Its New Budget iPhone 16e, the iPhone SE’s Successor
The iPhone 16e starts at $599 and has Apple Intelligence.
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Spanish spyware startup Mollitiam Industries shuts down
The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.
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IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back
For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process, but a financially exhausting one as well. San Francisco-based startup Future Family wants to help ease some of that burden for couples with […]
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Today’s Thought Leaders Are Stuck in An Echo Chamber. Here’s How They Can Break Free
Thought leaders often fall into echo chambers, especially on platforms like LinkedIn, where algorithms reinforce familiar viewpoints, limiting exposure to diverse ideas.
Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has […]
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This Week in AI: Maybe we should ignore AI benchmarks for now
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Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities
Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced on Wednesday that a new “Career Dreamer” tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career Dreamer, you can use […]
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Google pulls Gemini from main search app on iOS
Google is pulling its AI assistant Gemini from the main Google app for iOS devices. The move is meant to encourage users to download the standalone Gemini app instead, which would allow Google to more directly compete with other consumer-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. However, the change could also risk reducing Gemini’s […]
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7 Signs of a Broken Cap Table That Could Jeopardize Your Startup’s Success
In this article, we discuss what a broken cap table means, why it happens and what you can do to avoid it.
Humane’s ‘Ai Pin’ Wanted to Be the Next Smartphone. Now the Company Is Being Sold to HP For Parts.
Where did the Ai Pin go wrong?