Friday, 4 October 2024

OpenAI secured more billions, but there’s still capital left for other startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week once again brought us AI funding news, as well as some warnings: Some categories and stages are showing signs of overheating. Luckily, we also spotted […]

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Thursday, 3 October 2024

The 13 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech

A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector.

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Jan 6 Insurrectionist Shot To Death On Her Doorstep

Tamara Towers Parry's downward spiral began well before January 6, 2021, but losing her medical license after she participated in the Capitol riot could not have helped her mental state. Towers Parry had recently lost her home and was in the midst of eviction proceedings when the shooting on her front doorstep occurred.

While these sad broken people destroyed their lives for Trump, the instigator of the January 6 madness remains free at large, suffering no consequences for his actions. And who knows, in a few weeks, Donald Trump might even win the presidency again.

Source: Seattle Times

A former Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday.

Members of Towers Parry’s family did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.

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Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze

We recently asked Meta if it trains AI on photos and videos that users take on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company originally didn’t have much to say. Since then, Meta has offered TechCrunch a bit more color. In short, any image you share with Meta AI can be used to train its AI. […]

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OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of businesses are looking for alternatives, and with that, the OpenStack project for managing cloud infrastructure (and one of the world’s largest open source […]

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Tuesday, 1 October 2024

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild

In San Francisco’s Mission district, good music is all around you. That’s why, high up on a street pole at an undisclosed location in the Mission, Riley Walz installed a solar-powered box containing an old Android phone running the song identifying service, Shazam, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The so called “Bop […]

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