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Rabbit R1 hands-on: Already more fun and accessible than the Humane AI Pin
At the Rabbit R1 pickup party, we were able to check out the adorable AI device that costs $200. It has a screen, scroll wheel and works with some third-party apps.
8 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Stock market today: Tesla surges after earnings but indexes slide as yields rise
Tesla's surge is putting Big Tech earnings center stage as investors look to megacaps to lift stocks.
1 min read - NewsAssociated Press
TikTok bows to European pressure and halts reward feature on new app in France and Spain
TikTok said Wednesday that it's halting a feature on its new app rewarding users in Europe for watching videos, after facing pressure from regulators worried about its addictive features. The company backed down days after the European Union warned that the TikTok Lite app might have breached the 27-nation bloc's digital regulations when it launched earlier this month. The EU's executive Commission threatened to order the suspension of features that pose a risk to kids.
2 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software
Startups were also eager to help these businesses stay safely in business — and venture capital followed. For example, Joe Coffee raised some funding to help coffee shops take mobile orders, and Odeko and Cloosiv merged to combine their inventory and mobile-ordering apps. When Jack Pawlik and Avery Durrant founded New York-based coffee shop software company Dripos in 2019, they didn’t know they would soon be joining this group.
3 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
TechCrunch Minute: Perplexity AI could be worth up to $3B. Here's why
Perplexity AI's latest, large fundraising event could be quickly superseded by another, even larger chunk of capital, TechCrunch reports. Quick revenue growth at the company that has reportedly reached around $20 million worth of annual recurring revenue. Sure at $1 billion that's a 50x revenue multiple, but if the company is on a quick enough growth pace, investors paying up to 150x for its current ARR might not be as insane as it looks on paper, even if similarly priced bets back in the 2021
2 min read - TechnologyTechCrunch
Stainless is helping OpenAI, Anthropic and others build SDKs for their APIs
Rattray, who studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been building things for as long as he can remember, from an underground newspaper in high school to a bike share program in college. Rattray picked up programming on the side while at UPenn, which led to a job at Stripe as an engineer on the developer platform team. At Stripe, Rattray helped to revamp API documentation and launch the system that powers Stripe's API client SDK.
4 min read - BusinessEngadget
Google has delayed killing third-party cookies from Chrome (again)
Google has once again delayed the phasing out of third-party cookies from Chrome. Now the company says it’ll happen in 2025.
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