@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaCada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@DamonHD@mastodon.social@… Thank you for your captions code for HTML5 audio objects - I have it working for my podcast episodes now, such as https://www.earth.org.uk/Why-Do-Startups.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…
@askesis@qoto.orgO nordeste supera o sul em número de startups no Brasil.
https://exame.com/negocios/nasce-um-novo-polo-de-inovacao-nordeste-ja-e-a-segunda-regiao-com-maior-numero-de-startups/amp/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought international startup coverage wasn't essential (Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/techcrunch-leaves-europe-shut-down-startups
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta agrees to take a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8B, in a deal that gives cash to Scale's shareholders and makes Alexandr Wang a top Meta executive (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.socialDus bij dezen heb ik Telegram verlaten.
Het was een fijne chat-client.
https://techstartups.com/2025/03/26/elon-musks-grok-ai-joins-telegram-gaining-access-to-over-1-billion-users-a-new-era-for-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to over $500M in revenue last year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-vibe-codi…
@chfloudas@mstdn.socialThe "says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning'."
But it al depends on which "game" is one interested in winning.
https://fortune.co…
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.deDie Rüstungsregierung im Amt https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9961
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought "international startup coverage wasn't essential" (Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/techcrunch-leaves-europe-shut-down-startups
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialCreatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSingapore's Temasek cuts back on startup investments after the fund wrote down hundreds of millions of dollars on a spate of collapsed startups, including FTX (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/54594076-eea5-4c0d-946c-e05ba7038d3e
