Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha has announced an $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth Fund, valuing the London-based company at more than $1 billion. The investment is notable for coming from KKR’s growth equity arm, which targets companies with proven business models that are still in aggressive expansion mode – a…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic told its investors it would more than double its second-quarter revenue to nearly $10.9 billion and post an operating profit for the first time. reports. This is a major milestone and sharp quarter-on-quarter growth that will put it in an advantageous position relative to its main competitor, OpenAI….
Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder Raises $20M from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest For an esports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, we wondered how the conversation even started — especially since ARK had already been burned by a company working…
A day after Elon Musk lost his case This threatens OpenAI’s structure, leadership and finances, sources said, with the AI giant set to move forward with its initial public offering. wall street journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes his company will be ready to go public by September. The ChatGPIT maker is working…
A day after Elon Musk lost his case This threatens OpenAI’s structure, leadership and finances, sources said, with the AI giant set to move forward with its initial public offering. wall street journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes his company will be ready to go public by September. The ChatGPIT maker is working…
Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan blow away its traditional search In favor of an AI-powered experience – but Google isn’t the only company planning the next generation of searchability. This morning, Bloomberg has news Andreessen-backed Axa Labs, which has raised $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, to go into the same market. And…
Google is getting (back) into the smart glasses game. Tuesday at Google I/OThe company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce a new line of AI-powered glasses. The company says the devices will integrate with Android and iOS devices and have been designed in collaboration with Samsung. They will be…
Messaging platform giant Discord has rolled out end-to-end encrypted voice and video messaging for every user. End-to-end encryption The feature means Discord users can now communicate privately, without anyone else being able to hear their calls, not even Discord. It’s a huge privacy win for the community’s millions of users, coming on the heels of…
Google is getting (back) into the smart glasses game. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to create a new line of AI-powered glasses. The company says the devices will be designed to integrate with Android and iOS devices, and were designed in collaboration with…
In addition to introducing its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also introduce tools that allow AI agents, such as Cloud Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own AntiGravity or Gemini in Android Studio, to accelerate Android app development. Google shared at its Google I/O annual developer conference on…
