Rork's founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16z
Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a movie plot — but it actually happened.
They went from broke, with depleted life savings and $15,000 in credit card debt — Dhawan was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend's apartment — to ge
A new startup called Bono aims to modernize the way people donate to charities
Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined
Tesla sales continue to slump across Europe despite April EV sales swell
Tesla’s new car sales in Spain fell 36% in April to just 571 vehicles year-over-year, Reuters reports. That slump comes as sales of electric cars made by other brands rose in the Iberian country.
Tesla sales in Spain mirror those in Europe generally, which plunged in the first four months o
Datadog acquires Eppo, a feature-flagging and experimentation platform
Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup, the cloud monitoring and security company has acquired Eppo, a feature-flagging and experimentation platform.
Eppo will continue supporting existing customers and bringing on ne
MoneyFellows raises $13M to take its group savings model outside Egypt
While most African digital lenders depend on working capital to fuel growth, MoneyFellows has quietly done what few others have: lend billions of Egyptian pounds with almost no debt or balance sheet exposure.
Now, after raising $13 million in a pre-Series C round led by Casablanca-based Al Mada Ve
Residents of SpaceX's Starbase launch site vote to incorporate as a city
Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting its own official company town.
Residents of an area around SpaceX's Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Dep
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models.
Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted
Backstage access: Spotify's dev tools side-hustle is growing legs
Spotify generates the vast bulk of its income from ads and subscriptions, but for the past few years the music-streaming giant has also been quietly building out a developer tooling business. Backstage, a project it open sourced in 2020, has been adopted by more than 2 million developers across 3,4
Google's Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)
Google's most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game.
Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!”
To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon li
eBay and Etsy are relatively confident despite tariff pressures
Like virtually every sector in the business world, the secondhand industry is grappling with the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
However, based on the comments made by eBay and Etsy earlier this week, both don’t appear to be overly concerned.
How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers
For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat. Hobbyists have long dedicated themselves to finding vulnerabilities in games, often with the goal of developing cheats that they could share or sell. But ever since online competitive gaming became a l
AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights.
Systrom said the tactics represent “a force that's hurting us,” comparing them to those used
One of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safety
A recently released Google AI model scores worse on certain safety tests than its predecessor, according to the company’s internal benchmarking.
In a technical report published this week, Google reveals that its Gemini 2.5 Flash model is more likely to generate text that violates its safety
Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information
A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, technewss has found.
The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, dating and sexual preferences associated with the Raw app, as well as users’ locations. So