Microsoft says Bing can be provoked to respond outside of its ‘designed tone’

Microsoft has acknowledged reports of Bing’s strange responses to some queries over the past week since the launch of the updated search engine. Some users have reported receiving rude,... Read more »

Tile takes extreme steps to limit stalkers and thieves from using its Bluetooth trackers

Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts, which led the company to retool... Read more »

So that founder you backed turned out to be problematic. Now what?

Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re... Read more »

Puzzle is building a modern accounting package for today’s API-enabled startups

A company starting from scratch today is probably going to use a stack of financial software with the most modern fintech tools. These could be things like Stripe for... Read more »

Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

Pydantic, the popular python Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one... Read more »

Consumers find chatbots disappointing, but that won’t harm adoption

A lot’s changed since Tay. The advent of AI tech like ChatGPT dramatically improved the chatbot experience, showing that chatbots aren’t necessarily destined to deliver underwhelming back-and-forth conversations. But... Read more »

Paramount+ reaches 56M subs, raises prices as it combines with Showtime

Following the major integration of Showtime into Paramount+ two weeks ago, Paramount reported its quarterly earnings this morning, announcing that Paramount+ gained 9.9 million subscribers in Q4 to bring... Read more »

Planetarians grabs $6M to get its plant-based protein into foodservice orbit

A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians, a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau... Read more »

Zerocater raises $15M as demand heats up for flexible in-office food services

Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the days when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) — was growing at a fast clip and... Read more »

5 buyer red flags to look for during the M&A process

Marina Martianova Contributor Share on Twitter Marina Martianova, founder and CEO of Seamm, is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first startup at the age of 21. The global... Read more »
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