How Startup Investments Help Corporations Accelerate Their Growth • Early market insights: Investing in startups allows corporations to gain insights into emerging market trends, consumer preferences and disruptive technologies. By monitoring the progress of their ... 06/7/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Outstanding voices: Why Katherine Rice is investing in female founders As one of the few female general partners cutting checks in venture capital, Katherine Rice is determined to make her capital count. Through her firm GingerBread Capital, she invests in female ... 06/6/2024 - 3:00 pm | View Link
Cincinnati AI startup Vurvey raises $2M, eyes global expansion Vurvey, an artificial intelligence research company, raised $2 million from Cincinnati-based Tindall Capital. The round brings the firm’s total funding to date to $3 million, following a $1 million ... 06/6/2024 - 7:24 am | View Link
AI startup lands $10M seed round from Madrona, Point72 Ventures to automate complex workflows Ted Kummert, venture partner at Madrona; Steve Singh, managing director at Madrona; Nic Surpatanu, founder and CEO of Tektonic AI; and Henry ... 06/6/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Sam Altman's $65K OpenAI Salary Masks A $2.8 Billion Startup Empire While Sam Altman is widely recognized as the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, he also plays a significant role in venture capital and startup investing. Most people are unaware that Altman’s investment ... 06/6/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
Enlarge / The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, doesn't develop teeth. (credit: Yvonne Van der Horst)
Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 million years ago.
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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, and per usual, the company is expected to detail most of the big new features in this year's updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and all of Apple's other operating systems.
The general consensus is that Apple plans to use this year's updates to integrate generative AI into its products for the first time.
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks onstage at SXSW on March 11, 2018, in Austin, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | Diego Donamaria )
Tesla Board Chairperson Robyn Denholm urged shareholders to re-approve CEO Elon Musk's $46 billion pay package this week, saying the vote is "not about the money" while suggesting that Musk could leave Tesla or devote less time to the company if he isn't properly compensated.
"This is obviously not about the money.
Enlarge / Microsoft's Recall feature is switching to be opt-in by default, and is adding new encryption protections in an effort to safeguard user data. (credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft's upcoming Recall feature in Windows 11 has generated a wave of controversy this week following early testing that revealed huge security holes.
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2K Games is expected to show the first trailer footage of the upcoming Civilization VII as part of this weekend's Summer Games Fest marketing extravaganza after a logo for the game leaked on 2K's website this morning.
Eagle-eyed gamers at ResetEra and Reddit both noticed the Civ VII banner atop the publisher's official site early this morning, alongside a "Coming Soon" label and inactive links to a trailer and wishlist page.
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Have electric vehicles been overhyped? A casual observer might have come to that conclusion after almost a year of stories in the media about EVs languishing on lots and letters to the White House asking for a national electrification mandate to be watered down or rolled back.