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Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, is offering a bit of positive news at a time when the overall livestream shopping industry is failing to gain traction in the U.S. The company announced on Wednesday that its annual gross merchandise v

During COVID-19, Wiley Webb embarked on a year-long trip with his wife to try to figure out the most pressing issues in the food system. He talked to people at more than 70 farms and consistently heard that they wanted more buyers. Large buyers told Webb they wanted to find these farm suppliers but

Character.AI is starting a new chapter after its $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which involved CEO Noam Shazeer returning to the search giant. It hired Erin Teague as a chief product officer, a YouTube exec who was the global head of sports movies and shows product management. Teague, wh

This time last year, Alphonzo Terrell uncorked a fancy bottle of Champagne to toast the one-year anniversary of his layoff from Twitter. He had a lot to celebrate at the time: His social media platform, Spill, had just raised a $2 million seed extension and had grown to around 200,000 users. Now, a

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. Anthropic’s Claude can’t solve basic word problems. Gemini fails to understand quadratic equa

PlugBug with Find My is a strange beast — but, then, most of Twelve South's products are. The firm has made its name releasing clever and idiosyncratic Apple accessories for edge cases that are large enough to sustain a small but loyal fanbase. In the past, that's included products like

The lawmaker behind California’s recently vetoed AI bill, SB 1047, is going down swinging. For months, Silicon Valley debated whether SB 1047 would have a chilling effect on California’s AI boom or would protect against catastrophic harms from advanced AI systems. The answer never bec

Two years ago, Xiaodi Hou was ousted from his position as CEO of TuSimple, an autonomous trucking startup he co-founded that has since shut down U.S. operations and delisted from the stock exchange — and, in an odd twist, the company has pivoted to AI animation and gaming in China.  Now Hou is

Juno, the popular app that brought YouTube videos to Apple's Vision Pro, is shutting down, its developer announced on Tuesday. As YouTube had not launched its own app for Vision Pro, Juno filled an important hole in the app ecosystem, by allowing users watch videos in the immersive environment

Toyota is doubling down on Joby Aviation with a $500 million investment into the California-based company that’s developing electric air taxis. Toyota’s total investment in Joby, which includes a $394 million capital injection back in 2020, is now $894 million. The funds will be used

The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and food scientists won’t be remixing their protein cocktails in close proximity to La Sagrada Família for mu

On Wednesday, the European Union requested more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their respective algorithms for content recommendation, activity that falls under the bloc’s online governance rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA). In a press release the Commission said

Traditional retailers have a pressing problem. Fast-moving like Shein and Temu are eating their lunch by leveraging purpose-built, end-to-end supply chains. Meanwhile, incumbent retailers are still stuck on legacy platforms, juggling a myriad number of data sets, and struggling to respond to a puni

Women's health company Perelel announced on Wednesday the acquisition of LOOM a women's educational health platform, for an undisclosed amount. LOOM’s founder Erica Chidi will join Perelel as a strategic advisor.  Chidi co-launched LOOM in 2017 as an in-person experience, offeri