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Chinese game companies may be forced to sell off their overseas holdings in U.S. game companies. That could cause an earthquake in gaming.
Published on: February 19, 2025 | Source:Today, Belgian e-bike company Cowboy announced that it had fully moved its assembly operations to France.The shift comes as part of Cowboyβs response to global supply chain disruptions that impacted...
Published on: February 19, 2025 | Source:Shivani Shah discusses how digital twins are often misunderstood and the potential to aid industrial sites in the move towards sustainability. Read more: Digital twins and transitioning to a greener, safer industrial sector
Published on: February 19, 2025 | Source:Eleven Dynamics AG, a software developer and full-breed integrator of automated and open production solutions, has secured 3.7M for its Seed extension round.The round was led by new lead investors E...
Published on: February 19, 2025 | Source:The OpenAI rival will focus on strong infrastructure, multimodality and human-AI collaboration (as opposed to purely agentic systems).
Published on: February 19, 2025 | Source:Increase user activation with an AI agent in your product Discussion | Link
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:A new test from OpenAI researchers found that LLMs were unable to resolve some freelance coding tests, failing to earn full value.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Over the past 10+ years, the SaaS community has blown us away with your energy and passion, and has been the driving force in helping us expand from our humble roots of a few hundred Founders at our first meet-up and 1,000 or so at the first SaaStr Annual in 2015. Fast forward to 2025... Continue Reading The post Get Funded or Just Learn: VC Day at SaaStr Annual 2025 (!!). May 15 in SF Bay!! appeared first on SaaStr.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Human Like AI Voices API β At a Fraction of the Cost. Discussion | Link
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Despite massive success, the team-based shooter from NetEase was unable to stave off layoffs on its North American side.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 3, outperforming ChatGPT and Google Gemini in benchmarks with 200,000 GPUs and advanced reasoning capabilities, intensifying AI competition days after failed OpenAI bid.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation β a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago. Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:OpenAIβs Deep Research pairs advanced reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG, delivering automated reports that rival human analysts β at a fraction of the cost. This breakthrough AI tool could redefine knowledge work across industries, from finance to healthcare, while raising critical questions about job displacement. Read on to explore how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise AI workflows and setting new benchmarks for research...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, itβs focused on AI. Called Thinking Machines Lab, the startup, which came out of stealth today, intends to build tooling to βmake AI work for [peopleβs] unique needs and goals,β and to create AI systems that are βmore widely understood, customizable, and generally capableβ [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:As organisations implement AI tools into the workplace, employees are not as likely to be replaced by the technology as they might think. Read more: Think you might be replaced by AI? Think again
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Under the proposed rules, grid operators EirGrid and ESB Networks will also have to perform 'market sounding exercises'. Read more: New CRU rules force data centres to supply power to Irelandβs grid
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didnβt have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms, like Uber and Lyft. βOnce [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:PaperplaneTherapeutics has raised $1.5 million to treat patients for pain and anxiety using virtual reality.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:ShawnKittelsen of SkydanceInteractive knows there are a lot of tradeoffs between performance and graphics fidelity in making good virtual reality games. Last December, Skydance released its Behemoth game, where players immerse themselves in VR to battle gigantic beasts. The game is now available on the PlayStation VR 2, PCVR and Meta Quest headsets, and it[β¦]
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Where human talent & AI unite to spark limitless creativity Discussion | Link
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch β co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment β is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:FullEnrich, a global data enrichment aggregator for businesses, has raised $2M in its first seed funding round. The round was led by Flex Capital, M-Fund, Kima Ventures, First Degree, Offord Ventures,...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Aomni raises $4M to help sales teams close more deals with AI-powered research agents that provide real-time, deep prospect intelligenceβboosting close rates by up to 40%.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Talus, the next-gen platform for onchain AI agents, is joining forces with Sui, the blockchain which says it's built for mass adoption.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:London-based legaltech Luminance has secured $75M in a Series C funding round led by Point72 Private Investments, bringing its total fundraising over the past year to more than $115M and $165M overall...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and ElevenLabs have have reached lofty [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:What's the real bar to IPO today? per @MeritechCapital: 1$400M+ ARR2Growth of 30% or higher YoY (50-60% is even better)3A valuation between $3-5B 4Net revenue retention of 110-120% (and trending up)5Strong SaaS gross margins6Clear path to profitability pic.twitter.com/k5xxnGISpj β Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 19, 2025 Want to know what it... Continue Reading The post The Real Data on What...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Imperia, a SaaS platform facilitating supply chain management for manufacturers, has closed a 10M Series A funding round co-led by Burda Principal Investments and Samaipata, with participation from A...
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Catfishing is the new ghosting, so how can organisations protect themselves against this fishy practice? Read more: Donβt take the bait when it comes to career catfishing
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Dear SaaStr: When Should You Hire Your First Demand Generation Marketer in SaaS? My overly specific rough rule is about $20k in MRR. A deep dive on that and why here: I Hired My VP of Marketing at $20k MRR. It Wasnβt a Week Too Early. | SaaStr I Hired My VP of Marketing at... Continue Reading The post Dear SaaStr: When Should You Hire Your First Demand Generation Marketer in SaaS? appeared first on SaaStr.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:NCIβs Dr Anu Sahni gives an insight into the skills developed and career opportunities available for data analytics graduates. Read more: Is a degree in data analytics right for you?
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:So if growth is strong today, but not quite where you want it to be, recommendation #1 is to step it up. Go faster! Go harder! Go into beast mode, into founder mode. Recommendation #2 is to build a second, bigger product than the first. This always works on paper β if done right. But... Continue Reading The post One Way to Hit 50% Growth at $250,000,000 in ARR: Merge With Another Start-Up appeared first on SaaStr.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that weβve been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech space off the back of [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup thatβs aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for invasive blood draws and support [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 18, 2025 | Source:COPD affects 16 million in the US and 400 million globally and is the third leading cause of death.A core problem in COPD, Cystic fibrosis (CF), asthma, and bronchiectasis, is the overproduction of t...
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