Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own well-documented microcontroller.
But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you c
Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of years at an ambitious $40 billion valuation.
We talked with Lore in person in New York recently about Wonder and it
Australian government drops misinformation bill
The Australian government has withdrawn a bill that would have fined online platforms up to 5% of their global revenue if they failed to stop the spread of misinformation.
The bill, which was backed by the Labor government, would have allowed the Australian Communications and Media Authority to cr
Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025
Midway through 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d already hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups and that a bounce-back was coming. While momentum hasn’t been a straight shot up and to the right ever since, it’s loo
The curious case of Nebius, the publicly traded AI infrastructure ‘startup’
On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space.
Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering where this company had come from, as there had been little in the way of the usual fanfare that surrounds mo
DOJ tells Google to sell Chrome
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we're exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok brainrot for study tools.
Trump's tariff threats don't scare this Mexican fintech
Mexico's economic development — turbocharged by the amount of nearshoring in recent years — has made it fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his idea of taking a harder line on trade with Mexico.
Jaime Tabachnik,
Meet three incoming EU lawmakers in charge of key tech policy areas
The European Union looks to have clinched political agreement on the team of 26 commissioners who will be implementing President Ursula von der Leyen’s policy plan for the next five years. A final vote is still pending next week, but on Thursday, Politico’s Brussels Playbook newsletter
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (updated)
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case.
Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so
Illumen Capital doubles down on supporting underrepresented funds
Illumen Capital is doubling down on its support for fund managers and founders from underrepresented communities.
The firm is an impact fund of funds that has previously supported ways to address racial bias in investing. Yesterday, the firm, founded by Daryn Dodson, announced the raise of a
OpenAI is funding research into ‘AI morality’
OpenAI is funding academic research into algorithms that can predict humans’ moral judgements.
In a filing with the IRS, OpenAI Inc., OpenAI’s nonprofit org, disclosed that it awarded a grant to Duke University researchers for a project titled “Research AI Morality.” Contac
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Fondo wants to mitigate the American accountant shortage with its AI bookkeeping service
Despite all the talk of doom and gloom about the economy, entrepreneurship is actually on the rise in the U.S.: In 2024, an average of 430,000 new business applications were submitted every month, marking a 50% rise from 2019.
But the number of accountants these new businesses will need to mainta
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman warns against Elon Musk's 'conflict of interest' in setting AI policies
Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn and Inflection AI, shared his expectations for the incoming Trump administration in an opinion piece for the Financial Times. And while he appears hopeful that President-Elect Donald Trump could clear the way for more competition and faster innovation in the tec