Ex-Brex exec Sam Blond is already leaving Founders Fund just 18 months after he joined
Sam Blond is leaving Founders Fund, as well as the profession of venture capitalist, just 18 months after he joined the storied Silicon Valley firm. In a tweet on Monday, Blond expressed his gratitude at the chance to work at Peter Thiel’s VC firm and explained, “Full time investing /
Read moreAnthropic claims its new AI chatbot models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4
AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude. And the company claims that the AI chatbot OpenAI’s GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, as Anthropic’s new GenAI
Read moreGoogle’s latest Pixel Drop will let users post high-quality photos, videos on Instagram
Google today announced its latest set of Pixel-related features for phones, tablets, and watches, such as 10-bit video support for Instagram, expansion of the Circile to search feature, automatic workout detection on the original pixel watch, and selective app screening for multiple pixel devices. Pixel phone updates The company is
Read moreFinite differences and Pascal’s triangle
The key to solving a lot of elementary what-number-comes-next puzzles is to take first or second differences. For example, if asked what the next item in the series 14, 29, 50, 77, 110, … the answer (or at lest the answer the person posing the question is most likely looking
Read moreChris’ Corner: Performance is Good for Brains
I was darn impressed by Scott Jehl’s personal charge to bring back an idea known as “responsive video”. If you’ve seen the <picture> element, and how you can provide multiple <source>s with different @media queries allowing for only the best match to be shown, you already get it. It turns
Read moreIn Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety
Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security?
Read moreInstagram now lets you edit DMs up to 15 mins after sending them
Instagram announced today that it’s rolling out the ability for users to edit their direct messages for up to 15 minutes after sending them. The company also announced that users will soon also get the option to pin up to three messaging threads to the top of their inbox. The ability
Read moreDisrupt 2024 call for speakers now open
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Read moreEpic Games’ Tim Sweeney calls out Apple’s ‘bitter griping’ after its EU fine over anticompetitive practices
“Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tech giant for anticompetitive practices, in a post on X, weighing in on today’s news of the European Commission’s historic €1.84 billion fine against the iPhone maker. The
Read moreRazor and Perch merge, raise $100M on a $1.7B valuation as more roll-ups consolidate
Just days after the bankruptcy of Thrasio, two other significant players in the world of e-commerce aggregators are merging and raising some extra money to shore up their business and double down on a model it still believes has teeth. Berlin’s Razor Group has acquired U.S.-based Perch, and on top
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