Google Maps gains glanceable directions and an expanded Immersive View

Timed to arrive ahead of the summer travel season, Google’s bringing new features to Maps focused on discovery — and navigation. New “glanceable directions,” which Google announced in February.... Read more »

Google’s new generative AI lets you preview clothes on different models

Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models. A part of a wide... Read more »

Netflix will open a restaurant that serves food from ‘Chef’s Table,’ ‘Nailed It!’ and more

Netflix is expanding beyond streaming and mobile gaming and into a completely new category–the food service industry. The company announced yesterday that it’s opening a pop-up restaurant called Netflix... Read more »

Europe takes another big step towards agreeing an AI rulebook

The European Parliament has voted to confirm its negotiating mandate for the AI Act — hitting a major milestone which unlocks the next stage of negotiations toward a pan-EU... Read more »

Rejoice, for startup valuations are slowly recovering

We have good news for tech companies big and small this fine Wednesday morning: valuations are heading higher, though at a modest pace. New public market data indicates that... Read more »

Majority, a digital bank for US migrants, grabs $9.75M amid expansion in Texas

Majority, a mobile banking company offering financial services to U.S. migrants, closed on its fourth funding round in two years as it opens a community meetup space in Laredo,... Read more »

Backstrapped to 800,000 users, online programming community JDoodle lands funding

Started as a side project, JDoodle, which lets developers practice more than six dozen programming languages on one website, hit 800,000 users while being bootstrapped. Now the Sydney, Australia-based... Read more »

Mitigating AI biases in healthcare with Amy Brown from Authenticx

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Amy Brown, the co-founder and CEO of Authenticx, a... Read more »

Paro raises $25M to match freelance financial experts with firms

In 2015, Michael Burdick and Dan Wywrot, who’d spent years working at large accounting firms, founded a startup — Paro — to deliver finance and accounting solutions to businesses... Read more »

Informatica acquires Privitar, once valued at $400M, to expand its data management stack

One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we’re getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data... Read more »
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