Why we’re seeing so many seed-stage deals in fintech
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! It was a relatively quiet week in fintech startup land, so we took the time
Read moreSBF’s trial starts soon, but how did he — and FTX — get here?
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's trial begins Tuesday. Here's what you need to know.
Read moreA tale of two research institutes
If you’re lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for me. The two go back several decades, to the salad days of MIT’s Leg Lab. [A version of this story original appeared in
Read moreTinder goes ultra-premium, Amazon invests in Anthropic and Apple explains its new AirPods
In this edition of Week in Review, we cover Tinder's pricey new subscription, Amazon's investment in Anthropic and the features of Apple's next-gen AirPods.
Read moreGoogle is covered by Canada’s privacy law, Federal Court of Appeal rules
A Canadian court has again rejected Google’s claim for an exemption from federal privacy law for its search engine results in case raising the so-called “right to be forgotten.” The first time Google lost was in a July 2021 decision by Federal Court Judge Jocelyne Gagné, who dismissed arguments that
Read moreHow much can artists make from generative AI? Vendors won’t say
As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no one can agree on whether or how much artists should be paid. A recent open letter from the Authors Guild signed by more than
Read moreVenture capital is opening the gates for defense tech
Anduril is symbolic of a trend in which defense tech and venture capital dollars are no longer antithetic.
Read moreConsecutive coupon collector problem
Coupon collector problem Suppose you have a bag of balls labeled 1 through 1,000. You draw draw balls one at a time and put them back after each draw. How many draws would you have to make before you’ve seen every ball at least once? This is the coupon collector
Read moreHumane’s ‘AI Pin’ debuts on the Paris runway
You’d better believe that Humane is going to milk the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. After all, the company’s been buzzy since it first engaged with the media – well before it offered the slightest bit of insight into what it’s been working on. That’s courtesy of its
Read moreKick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter with a sex worker without informing her that there were other people present. She was briefly prevented from leaving after she expressed discomfort, while Kick’s CEO posted laughing
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