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Nintendo fiscal year sales drop 30% ahead of Switch 2 launch

Nintendo reported relatively weak sales of 1,164.9 billion yen for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, down 30.3% from 1,671.8 billion yen a year earlier.

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Instacart’s Fidji Simo is OpenAI’s new applications CEO

Simo is expected to leave Instacart in the coming months to take up her new role reporting directly to Sam Altman. Read more: Instacart’s Fidji Simo is OpenAI’s new applications CEO

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Dear SaaStr: What is a Good Benchmark for SaaS Revenue Per Employee by Stage?

Dear SaaStr: What is a Good Benchmark for SaaS Revenue Per Employee by Stage? The benchmarks for SaaS revenue per employee vary by stage, but here’s a breakdown based on where you are in ARR and efficiency expectations: Early Stage (<$10M ARR): At this stage, revenue per employee is typically lower, often around $100,000-$150,000 per... Continue Reading

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Startups, sustainability, and investment: Austria’s innovation engine

Austria’s tech ecosystem is rapidly emerging as adynamic hub for innovation, sustainability, and deep-tech development in Europe.Vienna stands at the forefront as the central innovation hub, with Gra...

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

Thinkpilot launches with €600K Pre-Seed for AI Workspace for product managers

Bulgarian SaaS startup Thinkpilot launched today with a 600,000 Pre-Seed round led by LAUNCHub Ventures, with participation from several strategic angels across Europe.While many tools are bolting AI...

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

FTC loses appeal to stop Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

The tech giant acquired the hugely successful video game company back in 2023. Read more: FTC loses appeal to stop Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

DecisionRules secures €1.6M to scale its cloud-native SaaS platform internationally

Cloud-native SaaS platform DecisionRules has closed a 1.6 million financing round led by Lighthouse Ventures. Czech Founders VC, BD Partners, Chilli Ventures, and Czech angel investors Ory Weihs and ...

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

Scale Ireland: Attracting private capital still major challenge for start-ups

In its fourth annual survey, Scale Ireland has found that funding remains the number one concern among founders and CEOs, while 88pc are deploying AI. Read more: Scale Ireland: Attracting private capital still major challenge for start-ups

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Imagination unveils E-Series GPUs for graphics and AI at the edge

Imagination Technologies is unveiling its E-Series graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics and AI processing at the edge.

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Futureverse and Rakuten Wallet launch a pass to bring users onto Web3 more easily

Futureverse, a maker of AI and metaverse technology, has launched RakutenWallet.Pass with Rakuten Wallet to ease Web3 user onboarding.

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Nvidia welcomes Trump’s proposal to rescind global chip restrictions

Donald Trump's administration is expected to rescind Joe Biden's curbs on AI chip sales as part of a broader effort to revise semiconductor restrictions, Bloomberg reported.

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Opinion: The dawn of AI agents and what it might mean for commerce

In our new series, Jonathan McCrea looks beyond the headlines at how AI is transforming business, work, education and research. This week he takes on AI agents and their implication for retailers. Read more: Opinion: The dawn of AI agents and what it might mean for commerce

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Plakar

Effortless open source backup platform Discussion | Link

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Asendia AI

Land your dream job 10x faster with Sarah, your AI job agent Discussion | Link

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Griffin Gaming Partners leads $7M investment in Fuse Games

Griffin Gaming Partners led a $7 million investment round into indie studio Fuse Games, which is working on its first project.

Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Anthropic launches Claude web search API, betting on the future of post-Google information access

Anthropic launches web search API for Claude as Apple considers AI search alternatives to Google, signaling a major shift in how users discover information online.

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Figma Buzz

Asset production made easy. Discussion | Link

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Rove, founded by a 22-year-old, is helping Gen Z earn airline miles without credit cards

During his junior year study abroad, Max Morganroth, traveled to 30 countries, primarily flying in business and first class. His jet-setting was funded almost entirely by airline points he collected through strategic credit card applications and miles redemptions. Morganroth told TechCrunch that just about everyone he knew was β€œbegging” him to teach them how to […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

The New Netflix TV Experience

New search powered by OpenAI and return of TikTok-style feed Discussion | Link

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O edition)

Our most intelligent model that’s even better at coding Discussion | Link

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Echo Projects

Turn your ideas into outlines, without AI slop Discussion | Link

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

BluSmart investors propose $30M in new funding to revive the Uber rival

A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup, which abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: It’s contingent on BluSmart co-founder Anmol Singh Jaggi agreeing to resign. The proposed […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks

Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in 2015 and previously raised more than $130 million in venture financing from firms such as […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Want a career in automation? Here are the skills you’ll need

If you want to establish a solid career in automation make sure that you have a decent understanding of these six skills. Read more: Want a career in automation? Here are the skills you’ll need

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Carta abandons startup shutdown business, instead backs SimpleClosure’s $15M Series A

In February of 2024, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the startup winddown business with a new offering called Carta Conclusions. By December, the company had decided to β€œretire” that offering, according to a blog post. And now, SimpleClosure, a startup that has described itself as β€œthe Turbo Tax of shutting […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Mistral comes out swinging for enterprise AI customers with new Le Chat Enterprise, Medium 3 model

Mistral AI is making a concerted push to lower the barriers to scalable, privacy-respecting AI adoption for modern enterprises.

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

5 Interesting Learnings from Twilio at $4.7 Billion in ARR

So Twilio continues its slow but significant re-acceleration from the lows of 18-24 month ago. Growth is back to double digits, NRR is up, and free cash flow is strong. And its bets on AI seem to be paying off. Voice agents are a large growth vector. Is it a better Twilio though? It’s a... Continue Reading

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Nelly

Create your own team of AI agents Discussion | Link

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

While gaming stalled, Brazil adapted and found ways to move forward | The DeanBeat

Last week, an estimated 131,800 people -- many of them cosplayers dressed as their favorite video game characters -- went to Gamescom Latam.

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

AI data startup WisdomAI nabs $23M with a smart way to avoid hallucinations

Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar has a new data startup called Wisdom AI. It offers an agentic data analyst that works with structured, unstructured, even β€œdirty” data.

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Game, Sett, funding: A startup building AI agents for game development emerges from stealth with $27M

Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it’s only fitting that artificial intelligence β€” the technology that GPUs are used to power nowadays β€” is making its way into nearly every aspect of video game design. In keeping with that trend, on Wednesday a startup called Sett β€” which is […]

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

UK startup Zeus Sleep secures Β£150k for snoring and sleep apnoea solutions

UK healthtech startup Zeus Sleep has secured a 150,000 investment from British Design Fund to help accelerate the development of its groundbreaking solutions designed to alleviate the symptoms of sno...

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

Former NATO Secretary backs Final Frontier's defencetech Fund

Danish venture capital Final Frontier has raised its first fund of 4.5 million and mobilised a number of heavyweight profiles from the Danish defence industry.Final Frontier’s new fund, Final Fronti...

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

GOAT Gaming unveils Amy, its first pro AI agent

GOATGaming, the team behind the AI gamingplatform on Telegram with over 5 million active users, has launched Amy, its first AlphaGOAT Pro AI agent.

Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat