At Bletchley, Rishi Sunak confirms AI Safety Institute but delays regulations for another day
A Frontier AI taskforce established by the U.K. back in June to prepare for the AI Safety Summit held this week is on course to be...
Norrsken22’s debut fund closes at $205M to back growth-stage startups in Africa
It’s exciting times for growth-stage investment in Africa as Norrsken22, a Pan-African venture capital firm, achieves the final close of its debut fund, raising a total...
Your startup should solve an impossibly hard problem
Mediocre founders aren’t able to articulate what’s hard about the problem they’re solving
I’m spotting a worrying trend among startup founders who seem to think that running...
Personal finance app Monarch sees bump in users following Intuit’s news it is closing...
Now that Intuit is discontinuing its personal finance app Mint in January, some startups say they are already seeing a bump in new customers.
One of these...
Los Angeles demands robotaxi rulemaking powers
LA mayor wants the city, not a state agency, to regulate commercial AVs operations
Mayor Karen Bass says Los Angeles — not a state agency — should...
The iPhone 15’s best friend is an ultra-budget, stripped-down version of Apple Vision Pro
iPhone 15 got USB-C, a great upgrade just for the sake of cable management sanity, but that also brought support for native video out. That means...
Coinbase’s Q3 revenue beat expectations, but its shares fell as growth prospects underwhelmed
Coinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, released its Q3 2023 earnings on Thursday, giving shareholders and market participants an opportunity to see what’s going...
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud...
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers...
Uber and Lyft pay $328M to settle wage-theft complaints in New York
Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay drivers in New York a combined $328 million to settle wage-theft complaints. The settlement is the result of state...