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Identity management used to mean making sure you had your driver’s license when you left the house, but these days it's not so easy: Identity fundamentally underpins how we engage with the digital world, and identity services can take on many forms (and, unfortunately, abuses). I'm ex

Anthropic, a startup that hopes to raise $5 billion over the next four years to train powerful text-generating AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, today peeled back the curtain on its approach to creating those systems. Dubbed “constitutional AI,” Anthropic argues its technique, whi

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. But as last year’s crypto experts quickly work to rebrand as AI experts, they’ll have to compete with the VCs who have been investing in the category all along. Seattle-based Ascend is one of

It's time for yet another countdown reminder. You have four — count 'em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to technewss Disrupt 2023, taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Planning pays: You can save up to $800, but only if you buy yo

UVeye’s automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats, but the six-year-old Israeli startup has found deep interest and investment from the automotive sector. The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to

E-commerce businesses don't often build big companies: they might be big in revenue, but remain lean in headcount. However, 8fig believes these companies should still be able to get the expertise of, say, a chief financial officer, but in a way that works for their business. When Yaron Shapira,

Shares of Indian food delivery firm Zomato ended session on Tuesday at a decline of 6%, hours after it became known that Invesco had cut the valuation of its rival Swiggy. Shares of Zomato ended Tuesday’s trading session at 60.94 Indian rupees (or 74 U.S. cents ), a 6% decline over the day

After viewing thousands of presentations and pitch decks over many years, even the most experienced angel investors — and VCs — can overlook red flags that are subtle and not immediately apparent. I know this from firsthand experience: Along with many wins there are some investments I wish I

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“The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves — text messages to be exact — deserve attention, too. Traina is the CEO and co-founder of HiNOTE, an app that helps people create messages, set over personalized backdrops of

We can all agree that data brokers are creepy and bad, and that in this age they have feasted upon our personal information like never before. Opting out is hard enough — which is why Optery is there to help — but as the data economy continues to evolve, we may want a more proactive management

Electric boats are still a rarity on America’s waterways, but everyone seems to agree they represent a cleaner, quieter future for our lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Navier has moved impressively quickly from idea to prototype to production boat, and the startup is now touring the West Coa

When scaling a paid acquisition channel, you should constantly question whether you're spending in the most efficient way possible. If you're scaling spending across various channels, it's more than likely that you're facing rising costs. But how do you know where and when to draw t

One constant theme we've been hearing from the big cloud infrastructure vendors this year is helping customers increase the efficiency of their cloud spend. Cloud bills have grown enormously as companies move more workloads. Combine that with a high level of economic anxiety, and a pronounced s