Google Photos launches a ‘2024 Recap’ for a look back at this year’s memories

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December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 489 words · Catherine Williams

Heartcore Capital closes $180M fund to pivot toward infrastructure, synthetic biology, climate

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December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 599 words · Laura Lloyd

Hopeful hearts and other startup news

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December 6, 2024 · 4 min · 770 words · Aaron Fischer

If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars

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December 6, 2024 · 6 min · 1070 words · Stephanie Smith

Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps

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December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 523 words · William Shaw

Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model

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December 6, 2024 · 4 min · 843 words · Justin Arnold

MobiKwik’s IPO will value it at $250M, 73% less than its last private valuation

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December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 345 words · Valerie Petty

OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain

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December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 304 words · Dr. Tracy Mullen

OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot

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December 6, 2024 · 7 min · 1298 words · Kristy Scott

Rivian’s EVs ranked last on Consumer Reports reliability list

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December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 390 words · John Cruz

Snyk hits $300M ARR but isn’t rushing to go public

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December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 553 words · Daniel Cochran

Will people really pay $200 a month for OpenAI’s new chatbot?

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December 6, 2024 · 6 min · 1277 words · Jill Brown

Zopa, the UK neobank, snaps up $87M at a $1B+ valuation, eschewing the IPO route

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December 6, 2024 · 7 min · 1303 words · Heather Smith