Son of Hamas founder obliterates activist journalist who once pushed 9/11 conspiracy over Israel-Hamas war
Son of Hamas founder obliterates activist journalist who once pushed 9/11 conspiracy over Israel-Hamas war
Son of Hamas founder obliterates activist journalist who once pushed 9/11 conspiracy over Israel-Hamas war
President Biden spoke about the Israel-Hamas war during his commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday.
The bid to add an 11th team to the grid is reportedly getting personal.
Nvidia's quarterly results blew away estimates again on Wednesday, and as the company moves to its next-generation chips its CEO sees supply, not demand, serving as its biggest challenge.
The historic but largely symbolic move comes amid growing international outrage over reports of mounting civilian deaths in Gaza from Israel’s war against Hamas.
After a splashy New York City debut only one year ago, Volkswagen is reversing course and now says its ID.7 EV sedan isn’t coming to North America — at least for now.
Ramaswamy disclosed a 7.7% stake in the company and will push for changes, according to an SEC filing.
Gone are the days when space and defense were considered fundamentally antithetical to venture investment. Now, the country’s largest venture capital firms are throwing larger portions of their money behind so-called hard tech startups at the earliest stages. Not so for Jonathan Lacoste, the solo GP of Space VC, an Austin-based micro-fund that invests in frontier tech.
Unlike some other AI transcription apps that try to summarize the key points of a meeting on their own, Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI. Co-founder Chris Pedregal says he was inspired to build Granola after working with GPT-3 when it was new. The company sold to Google, and Pedregal stayed at the tech giant for a couple of years before getting the itch to build again.
Start making your Goldfish and Gumball predictions. Season 11 of the 'The Masked Singer' comes to an end tonight.
LaMelo Ball allegedly drove away and ran over an 11-year-old's foot when he was trying to get Ball's autograph at a Hornets fan event last fall.
Get caught up on this morning’s news: Michael Cohen wraps up testimony, Caitlin Clark’s injury scare and more in today’s edition of The Yodel newsletter
Autodesk — the 3D tools behemoth — has acquired Wonder Dynamics, a startup that lets creators quickly and easily make complex characters and visual effects using AI-powered image analysis. Wonder Dynamics, founded by VFX artist Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan, basically made adding motion-captured CG characters to footage as simple as dragging an icon onto an actor. With years of experience in the film industry, the co-founders were clear from the start that it was a tool for professionals, providing all the nitty-gritty mocap, animation, and masking that VFX folks need to do their job.
It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced a $220 million seed round just a few months after the company’s inception. Charles Kantor, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, was a university researcher at Stanford.
More than 50,000 fans love that it sloughs away dead skin in sheets, leaving your pups 'literally transformed.'
The No. 1 bestseller is also formulated to fade wrinkles, scars and stretch marks.
Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and Doha. Chatting with Alchemist CEO and founder Ravi Belani ahead of demo day (today at 10:30 a.m. Pacific) about this cohort, it was clear that ambitions for AI startups have contracted, and that's not a bad thing. No early-stage startup today is at all likely to become the next OpenAI or Anthropic — their lead is too huge right now in the domain of foundational large language models.
The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse went from bad to worse last week when a U.S. Trustee filed an emergency motion asking to convert the company’s debt reorganization Chapter 11 bankruptcy into a liquidation Chapter 7 due to “gross mismanagement” of its estate. There seems to be a real appetite for an alternative to QuickBooks, the legacy accounting alternative for SMBs, judging by the attention this story on Layer’s $2.3 million raise received. Its customers are those working with small and medium-sized businesses to offer accounting and bookkeeping features inside their own products.
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. After graduating, they moved to San Francisco and joined the Winter 23 cohort at Y Combinator, where they launched Stack and refined their idea. Today, the company has built a low-code workflow automation tool designed to help companies build AI-driven workflows including chatbots and AI assistants, for example.
Sonos' first headphones are finally here, offering premium design, solid features and home theater chops.
Founder-market fit is one of the most crucial factors in a startup's success, and operators (someone involved in the day-to-day operations of a startup) turned founders have an almost unfair advantage in finding that fit. Data shows that a lack of expertise and business acumen in founders contributes to failed VC investments. The same principle applies somewhat to operator VCs (firms typically launched by former startup founders).