Ingrid Lunden
Managing Editor, Global
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Nirvana nabs $57M to make AI inroads into commercial trucking insurance
Nirvana Insurance — an insurance startup taking a new approach to insurance products for commercial fleets using artificial intelligence, telematics, internet-of-things technology and 15 billion
Web Summit derailed by founder’s public fight with those supporting Israel in Hamas war
Web Summit, the big tech conference brand that runs events in several cities and whose 70,000 person flagship event in Lisbon is taking place next month, is running into a wall — a wall of outra
LinkedIn confirms it will cut a further 668 jobs, bringing the total to nearly 1,400 this year
Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it would roll out a raft of new AI-powered tools across the business. Today, it’s making a different kind of announcement focused on the future: The c
Xpanceo, a deep tech startup, raises $40M to focus on smart contact lenses
Smartphone sales have had their worst quarterly performance in over a decade, a fact that raises two big questions. Have the latest models finally bored the market with mere incremental improvements?
Israel’s startup ecosystem: Down but not out
The world is still coming to terms with Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israelis last weekend — and everything else that has unfolded so far in the aftermath, including the barrage of retaliation str
Telegram CEO, a criticised but cited source of Hamas videos, says app will continue to host ‘war-related content’
As social platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok face off with regulators and the theater of public opinion for how they are handling incendiary and graphic content, disinformation, writ
Lanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M
Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups are now getting in on the act in trying to combin
EyeEm, the photo marketplace, changes hands as Freepik picks it up out of bankruptcy
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo marketplace, was once loftily thought of as a possible challenger to Instagram in Europe. More recently has fallen on much harder times, and now it has a new owner. Freep
Linda Yaccarino responds to EU: 700 Community Notes, 5K+ images shared on Israel-Hamas war, ‘thousands’ of pieces of content removed
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, came under fire earlier this week in Europe, when European Commissioner Thierry Breton sent a stark open letter to the company warning it of its failu
UK regulator takes first steps to investigate the $19B Vodafone/Three mobile merger
When Vodafone and Hutchison-owned Three in the U.K. announced their plan to merge in a non-cash deal to create a $19 billion mega mobile operator in June of this year, we noted that it would likely fa
SumUp’s valuation falls as low as $4.1B, as Groupon and others sell off their stakes
Adyen lost $13 billion in market cap last month when investors scrambled to sell shares after the payments company missed quarterly revenue targets. But it’s not the only one facing the music in
As its workers strike, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal for physicians to use an AI copilot from Nabla
Yesterday, 75,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente embarked on a three-day strike to protest understaffing, burnout and low wages — setting a record for the biggest healthcare strik
Habyt, an Airbnb-style platform aimed at longer stays and ‘flexible living,’ raises $42M
When it comes to visiting new cities, Airbnb changed the game for people who might have previously considered only hotels or guest houses: now, flexible alternatives in private homes, powered by a mod
LinkedIn goes big on new AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales, powered by OpenAI
LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned social platform for those networking for work or recruitment — is now 21 years old, an aeon in the world of technology. To stay current with what the working
Unitary AI picks up $15M for its multimodal approach to video content moderation
Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponized AI an
SBF, riding high on FTX, wanted to buy off Trump to cancel a presidential re-run
Come Tuesday, our eyes will be trained on the Manhattan Federal Court for the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur accused of orchestrating “one of the biggest finan
AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation
Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a hu
Meta filmed Mr Beast, Paris Hilton and 26 more to build celebrity AIs based on Llama 2
Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment, and how they’ll be compensated for that when those AIs are
Sources: Palo Alto Networks in advanced talks to buy Talon and Dig in a $1B security sweep
Palo Alto Networks’ stock price has been on the rise on the back of strong earnings and growing demand for cybersecurity services, and now the company is using that momentum to do a little shopp
Corti, an AI ‘co-pilot’ for healthcare clinicians, raises $60M
Artificial intelligence continues to be a major force in the world of healthcare, and in one of the latest developments, a Copenhagen startup called Corti has raised $60 million to expand its contribu