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Hexa, the startup studio behind Aircall and Swan, unveils its next batch of startups

Hexa, a Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, is sharing a list of its next batch of projects that are soon going to become independent startups. Hexa originally started its life in 2011 as eFounders, a startup studio focused on B2B software-as-a-service products. Hexa usually comes up with the ideas […]

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Threads now has 100M daily active users

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Meta’s microblogging platform, Threads, is growing at a quick clip since it was launched last year, and it seems to have benefited from the exodus of users from its rival, X, a couple months ago. The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that more than 100 million people use Threads daily, and that it

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Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driven on public roads outside the U.S. The move to Japan is part of Waymo’s “road trips,” a development program that involves bringing its technology to a variety of cities and testing it —

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Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5 billion valuation as of July as we previously reported. It’s co-founded by an author of the ‘Attention is All You Need’ paper that helped launch the LLM revolution. Based in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere sells AI to the

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Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners merges with investment arm of Pendulum Holdings

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holdings’ investment arm Pendulum Opportunities, to form MarcyPen Capital Partners, a MarcyPen spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The newly formed MarcyPen Capital Partners has $900 million in assets under management, according to PitchBook. MarcyPen’s spokesperson declined to comment further on the

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iRobot co-founder’s new home robot startup hopes to raise $30M

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that Angle’s new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is trying to raise $30 million. So far, it has raised $15 million from a group of eight investors.

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TikTok asks Supreme Court for a lifeline as sell-or-ban deadline approaches

Tech / By Rita Simmons

TikTok and ByteDance asked the United States Supreme Court to block the law that forces TikTok to be sold off or banned in the United States, according to an emergency filing with America’s top court on Monday. The social media company requested that the Supreme Court consider blocking the sell-or-ban law passed earlier this year

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OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users

Tech / By Rita Simmons

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default, ChatGPT will automatically determine which questions to route through ChatGPT Search, or users can tap a new “Search the web” icon in the ChatGPT interface. ChatGPT Search shows summarized answers from different

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Google experiments with a new image generator that remixes three images into one creation

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Google’s experimental arm Google Labs is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead of text, allowing them to remix a photo by altering the subject, scene, and style. Whisk uses Google’s image generation model, Imagen 3, to combine three images: one for the subject, another for

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Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora

Tech / By Rita Simmons

Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products across Google’s portfolio. Veo 2 can

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