Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B

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November 9, 2024 · 3 min · 568 words · Lori Ruiz

Upwind, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup, is raising $100M at a $850M-$900M valuation, say sources

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November 9, 2024 · 3 min · 518 words · Kathleen Burke

VCs on how to ‘survive and thrive’ after a down round

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November 9, 2024 · 5 min · 940 words · Nicholas Smith

Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio

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November 8, 2024 · 14 min · 2917 words · Gerald Gardner

Benchmark, Index, others are in a wild unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere, maker of Cursor

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November 8, 2024 · 3 min · 455 words · Tracy Fuller

Block scales back TIDAL investment and shutters TBD in favor of Bitcoin mining

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November 8, 2024 · 2 min · 324 words · Nicholas Ochoa

ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes

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November 8, 2024 · 3 min · 515 words · John Smith

FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information

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November 8, 2024 · 5 min · 880 words · Lisa Gonzalez

How AI startup Conflixis is protecting hospitals from corrupt doctors

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November 8, 2024 · 4 min · 832 words · Jeffrey Scott

Large funds are too invested in the energy transition to turn back now

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November 8, 2024 · 2 min · 315 words · Shannon Anderson

Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing

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November 8, 2024 · 7 min · 1293 words · Scott Rodriguez

Monarch Tractor lays off 10% in restructuring towards software and licensing AV tech

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November 8, 2024 · 3 min · 538 words · Earl Hardy

Startup land wasn’t as quiet this week as you might’ve expected

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November 8, 2024 · 4 min · 809 words · Courtney Beck