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Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein and Guy Oseary will arrive at Disrupt 2024

Leave a Comment / Disrupt, Startups, TC, TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, Venture / By Salsa Noreen

Last year, sound companies 9-year-old Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm, led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million artificial intelligence fund that was betting big on big modelling companies’ linguistics, including OpenAI. Anthropic and Embracing Face. The plan was to invest in just six companies, a risky […]

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New York tech investor and serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan explains when to sell your company– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / Kevin Ryan, Startup Battlefield, Startup Battlefield 200, Startups, TC, TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 / By Salsa Noreen

Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a key force in New York City technology. He is the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp, which has invested in a wide variety of startups, and is a serial founder, involved in the early stages of companies such as Business Insider, Zola, Gilt,

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Meta won’t say if it trains AI on photos with smart glasses– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / Ai, Llama, META, ray-ban meta, TC, training data / By Salsa Noreen

Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, to take photos not only when you ask them to, but also when their AI features trigger them with certain keywords like “look.” That means the smart glasses collect a ton of photos, both taken deliberately and otherwise. But the company will not commit to

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A Russian warlord said he will bring Cybertrucks to Ukraine; some experts think that’s reckless– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / Cybertruck, In Brief, TC, Transportation / By Salsa Noreen

In August, a Russian warlord posted a video on Telegram showing a pair of Cybertrucks patrolling a highway in Chechnya, apparently armed with heavy machine guns. Leaving aside the (for now) unanswered questions about how the vehicles were obtained, Wired thought it was worth investigating whether a Cybertruck really it makes sense as “technical,” the

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Qualcomm may be trying to buy Intel– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / Hardware, In Brief, Intel, Qualcomm, TC / By Salsa Noreen

Chipmaker Qualcomm is reportedly trying to buy rival Intel. The Wall Street Journal He broke the news late on Friday that Qualcomm had approached Intel with a proposal for an acquisition. The New York Times after corroborated the storyadding that no official offer has been made. Even if there were an offer, it’s unclear whether

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23andMe sees independent board members resign en masse– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / Biotech & Health, TC / By Salsa Noreen

23andMeThe personal genomics company, 23andMe, went public in early 2021 through a merger with a blank-check company that valued it at $3.5 billion. Then its fortunes began to sink. Declining interest in DNA kits (23andMe’s main product) was one of the factors driving it down. So was last year’s news that hackers stole ancestry data

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Insight Partners nears new $10 billion fund– Brit Commerce

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Insight Partners It is reportedly close to making capital commitments of more than $10 billion for its 13th fund, According to the FT. The FT report notes that two of Insight’s portfolio companies were acquired last week. One of them, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, was sold to Mastercard for $100 million. $2.65 billionwas wholly

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This is how bad the startup landscape looks now in China– Brit Commerce

Leave a Comment / TC, Venture / By Salsa Noreen

In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would do well to follow China’s example,” noting that the pace of work at tech companies was “furious” and that China offered “investment opportunities in the best companies.” Soon after, it all imploded. Worse still, as the FT notes in a new

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