Fresh Baked Cookies at Elderberry Provisions
Fresh Baked Cookies at Elderberry Provisions
Fresh Baked Cookies at Elderberry Provisions
Microsoft won't be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment in French AI startup, Mistral AI, with the country's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday concluding that the partnership "does not qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002." The decision comes three weeks after the CMA revealed a trio of early-stage probes into Amazon and Microsoft's various AI investments and partnerships, including the Redmond-based company's $16 million investment in Mistral AI, an OpenAI rival working on large language models. Shortly after, Microsoft hired the team behind Inflection AI, another OpenAI rival, essentially gutting the startup.
Canon has confirmed long-standing rumors that a flagship EOS R1 is in the works. The full-frame mirrorless camera is coming alter this year.
It seems like it was only yesterday (well, seven years ago!) that I was honing in on the rapid development of Portugal’s growing startup and investment scene. Today comes further proof that Portugal is stretching its wings as one of Europe’s freshest and hungriest tech ecosystems: Venture firm Shilling has launched a €50 million fund to support growth-stage startups in its own portfolio and also — crucially — to invest in startups everywhere else. The VC arm of Portuguese private equity firm Draycott SCR, Shilling is best known for being an early-stage investor in startups like Talka, Unbabel, Bizay, Uniplaces and Best Tables (acquired by TripAdvisor in 2015).
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers and ranking member Frank Pallone, Jr. have released a bipartisan draft looking to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, because it has "outlived its usefulness."
Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the wider Francophone region. The seed round was led by Ventures Platform, with participation from Seedstars International Ventures, Reflect Ventures, Oui Capital, Launch Africa, Voltron Capital and Alumni Ventures.
The pop star worked new songs from “The Tortured Poets Department” into her “Eras Tour” performances. Find out what’s changed since Swift last took the stage.
Here's a look at the rookies who have stood out on each team through the first quarter of the 2024 season.
Not only is it on sale, but it comes in 40 dynamite colors and prints as well.
The tech world's new push for investor returns is changing what a dividend company looks like.
This is where Fairgen wants to help. The Israeli startup today launched a platform that uses "statistical AI" to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing. The company is also announcing a fresh $5.5 million fundraise from Maverick Ventures Israel, The Creator Fund, Tal Ventures, Ignia and a handful of angel investors, taking its total cash raised since inception to $8 million.
“We train mushrooms to eat trash and create renewable, bio-based raw materials,” she told TechCrunch. Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Mycocycle, one of a fresh crop of startups using fungi, nature’s recyclers, to create plastic-like polymers for a post-fossil fuel economy. “We want to be able to compete with the 3Ms and BASFs and Dows of the world,” Rodriguez said.
One such destination is Hong Kong, which, seeking to restore its status as a financial hub, is banking on favorable crypto regulations to draw a fresh raft of entrepreneurs, technologists and investors. In mid-April, Hong Kong's annual web3 festival drew in over 50,000 attendees. There were noticeably more non-Chinese attendees compared to last year, when the event felt like a gathering of crypto refugees fleeing mainland China's restrictive policy.
If you don’t have a Prime membership, you can use your Amazon visa card to earn 3% cash back on every purchase you make from Amazon.com
Some 'garden leave' agreements that Wall Street uses to protect secrets are expected to survive the FTC's new noncompete ban, but some probably won't.
Google has once again delayed the phasing out of third-party cookies from Chrome. Now the company says it’ll happen in 2025.
Her makeup artist swears by it for this clever foundation trick for dewy, glowing coverage.
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Fantasy baseball analyst Scott Pianowski breaks down what he learned from a recent industry draft, one month into the 2024 MLB season.
Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment. The startup’s latest investment is from African Renaissance Partners, an East African venture capital firm; Endgame Capital, an investor with a bias for technologies around climate change; and King Philanthropies, a climate and extreme poverty investor. The fresh capital comes as the startup scales its operations in Ethiopia following the launch of its factory in Addis Ababa, where it is turning plastic waste into interlocking building materials like bricks, columns, beams and jambs.
Down 3-0 in the first round, Phoenix is all but guaranteed an early exit in the big three's first season together. Where do the Suns go from here?