Subletting app Kiki raises $6M by using dating app concepts to match listings and renters
Kiki (formerly EasyRent), a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months, recently closed a $6 million seed round, its co-founder Toby Thomas-Smith exclusively told TechCrunch. The funding will go toward Kiki’s upcoming relaunch in New York City this fall. Blackbird Ventures led
Read moreGovernments of Canada and Ontario invest $219 million in high speed internet access for Eastern Ontario
Today, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced a combined investment of C$219 million to bring high-speed internet access to more than 66,000 households in over 300 Ontario communities, including more than 600 Indigenous households. The investment is going to Rogers, who will be undertaking the project, slated to be
Read moreWe don’t have to reinvent the wheel to regulate AI responsibly
Daniel Marcous Contributor Share on Twitter Daniel Marcous is the co-founder and CTO of april, an AI-driven tax platform. Daniel was previously the CTO of AI-driven navigation platform Waze, which was acquired by Google in 2013. We are living through one of the most transformative tech revolutions of the past
Read moreKlaviyo could break the unicorn IPO logjam
Last Friday, two venture-backed companies filed to go public. Grocery delivery service Instacart dropped its Form S-1 filing along with Klaviyo, a marketing software company from Boston. We dug into Instacart’s filing on Friday but didn’t have time to also spelunk into Klaviyo’s IPO filing. We’re going to do that today,
Read moreRogers stronger than other providers in 5G experience: Opensignal report
Rogers came out on top in six out of eight categories in Opensignal’s latest 5G experience report, outstripping Bell and Telus. The company won best 5G Video and 5G Games Experience, with scores of 76.1 and 86.6 respectively, on a 100-point scale. Bell and Telus trailed behind by a small
Read moreHow To Give Feedback To Your Manager
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Read moreSEC takes first action against an NFT project as an unregistered security
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, the SEC announced its first enforcement action against NFTs in a case that was settled by Impact Theory, the NFTs’ issuer. The SEC said the NFTs issued by Impact Theory were unlicensed securities. The company agreed to a cease-and-desist order, paid $6.1
Read moreChris’ Corner: Even More SVG Tricks
SVG has so many tricks up its sleeve. It’s really a full-featured drawing API literally designed for the web, but few of us really truly understand it nor reach for it enough. Heck, I even wrote a book about it, and I don’t. At the time, just getting people to
Read moreThe one key skill I look for to judge seniority
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Read moreFixing Hallucinations in LLMs
Why LLMs hallucinate, approaches for mitigation, challenges with evaluation datasets, and moreImage generated by Stable DiffusionGenerative Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly fluent responses to various user prompts. However, their tendency to hallucinate or make non-factual statements can compromise trust.I think we will get the hallucination problem to a much,
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