What we expect from MWC 2024

February 16, 2024

In a little over a week’s time (February 26-29) around 85,000 or so attendees will descend upon the Fira de Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2024. Over the past few years, the show has become arguably the most important mobile event of the year. Phone makers, telecoms and a variety of other tech vendors, journalists […]

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Poor people need not apply for this dating app

February 16, 2024

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I’m having one of those weeks where I’m just constantly, very slowly shaking my head at people. As I sat down to read all the stories […]

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Tech giants sign voluntary pledge to fight election-related deepfakes

February 16, 2024

Tech companies are pledging to fight election-related deepfakes as policymakers amp up pressure. Today at the Munich Security Conference, vendors including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Adobe and IBM signed an accord signaling their intention to adopt a common framework for responding to AI-generated deepfakes intended to mislead voters. Thirteen other companies, including AI startups OpenAI, […]

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The hard tech renaissance accelerates as YC spotlights space, manufacturing and defense

February 16, 2024

Y Combinator is putting hard-tech in the spotlight. On Wednesday, the accelerator released an updated list of ideas it would like to see in applications — with categories like space, manufacturing and defense featured prominently. YC has backed plenty of hard-tech startups before. Launch companies Stoke Space and Relativity Space and satellite broadband provider Astranis, are […]

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4 Honest Truths That Will Make You a Better Boss

February 16, 2024
When the buck stops with you, you’ve got to be prepared for all that entails — both sucking up the losses and sharing the wins. There’s nothing you can physically do to train for this inevitability; rather, it’s a mental exercise of reframing that will maintain your balance as the boss.

San Francisco Giants replace Cruise self-driving car uniform patch with another GM brand

February 16, 2024

The San Francisco Giants said goodbye this week to a uniform patch that advertised Cruise and its robotaxis — the latest fallout for the GM self-driving subsidiary and its controversial presence in the city. The marketing partnership, which was announced in August 2023, will continue, but with another GM brand. For the 2024 baseball season, […]

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