Venus Williams brings her interior design skills to Palazzo, a new generative AI-powered platform
If you didn’t know legendary tennis player and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams had an eye for interior design, consider this your heads up. It’s been 20 years since she founded her interior design firm V Starr Interiors, and now Williams is entering the generative AI space with a
Read moreVibe helps small companies buy video ads on streaming services
As streaming apps and services are gradually showing more ads to viewers, adtech startup Vibe plans to help small businesses take advantage of that trend by letting them access that ad inventory with a self-serve ad platform like the ones small businesses use to run ads on Google’s or Meta’s
Read moreInspired Capital secures $330M fund to take venture capital ‘back to the studs’
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Read moreFigure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation
Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s raising more money than God. The Bay Area–based robotics firm has announced a $675 million Series B on a $2.6 billion valuation. The lineup of investors is equally impressive, including Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos
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Read moreThis ‘Amazon’s Choice’ video doorbell could let just about anyone spy on you
An “Aiwit” doorbell camera. There are many like it. | Image via Amazon Does your video doorbell look anything like the one in the picture? Perhaps you bought it for cheap at Amazon, Temu, Shein, Sears, or Walmart? Does it use the Aiwit app? Consumer Reports is reporting the security
Read moreMeta’s Zuckerberg woos big tech in Asia to double down on AI chips
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is touring Asia countries this week, said in a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday that Meta wants to beef up its cooperation with Samsung Electronics for AI chips to offset geopolitical risk issue in Taiwan, where TSMC, the world’s biggest
Read moreEx-Meta employees’ Aptos tests Hong Kong’s crypto appetite
Ever since Hong Kong legalized cryptocurrency trading last June, blockchain projects from the West have been paying more attention to the Asian financial hub. Aptos, the a16z-backed blockchain networka16z- and Tiger Global-backed blockchain network developed by a group of former Meta employees, is one of them. Started by some of
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