Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial: U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. Read More |
These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI: Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He's groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior. Read More |
Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers: IQM, a Finnish quantum computing company is now a unicorn after raising over $300 million in a Series B round funding led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused on cybersecurity. Read More |
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Discover how Snapdragon technology can optimize Windows 11 performance and reduce IT expenses, making your business more efficient and cost-effective, while ensuring future readiness and security. |
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| PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions: The arrangement is part of a new partnership between PayPal and the AI provider, which benefits both companies in different ways. Read More |
Netflix updates its Moments feature to give users greater control over scene clipping: With the new Moments update, Netflix users now have the option to adjust where each scene clip ends. Read More |
Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world: Lens Live will not replace Amazon's existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens. Read More |
Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits: An appellate court found that the Trump administration was within its rights to cancel billions of dollars in grants. The nonprofits that had their grants canceled are expected to appeal. Read More |
College social app Fizz expands into grocery delivery: The new partnership will allow students to order anything from late-night snacks to weekly groceries directly within the Fizz app in as fast as 15 minutes. Read More |
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Advanced geothermal startups are just getting warmed up: Geothermal energy startups including Fervo Energy and Sage Geosystems are signing key deals that bring their technology closer to broader commercial deployment. Read More |
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