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VC investment in European startups passed $52B in 2024, continuing long-term growth trend
Venture capital investment in European startups passed $52 billion last year, reflecting the market’s long-term growth…
Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity
There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference…
Startups Weekly: Founders may be raising less, but deals haven’t been lacking
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Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy
Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round…
10 startups to watch from Y Combinator’s W25 Demo Day
Silicon Valley’s most storied startup accelerator, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday,…
Skich launches an alternative app store on iOS in the EU
Skich, a Tinder-like app for discovering mobile games, announced Thursday the launch of a new marketplace…
Wolf Games, backed by ‘Law & Order’ creator, uses AI to create murder mystery games
Elliot Wolf, the executive producer and son of “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf, is entering…
Apple blocks Tinder owner, startups from commercial secrets in India antitrust case
Apple blocks Tinder owner, startups from commercial secrets in India antitrust case#Apple #blocks #Tinder #owner #startups…
Mark Cuban says AI is ‘never the answer,’ it’s a ‘tool’
Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin, tech investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban shared his thoughts…
9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There…
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using…
Funding to women-founded startups declined 12% in 2024, but that wasn’t far behind the broader market
Venture investment in startups run by women has always lagged the overall market, and with companies…
Nurturing Startups: How the Middle East is Racing Ahead in the Global AI Boom
By Anthon?Garcia? and Emmy Borromeo AI could potentially inject $15.7 trillion into the global economy by…
Accounting hasn’t fully embraced AI yet — Quanta just raised $4.7M to change that
AI has brought attention to all kinds of futuristic technologies, from humanoid robots to autonomous warships.…
Stripe CEO says AI startups are growing faster than SaaS ever did and calling them wrappers ‘misses the point’
In its annual letter released Thursday, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI…
Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training
Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen.…