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Samsung unveils Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Buds 3, available for preorder now and shipping July 24

While Samsung has maintained its own familiar design with the standard Galaxy Buds 3, the Pro are experiencing a sort of Apple identity crisis. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its first smart ring, arrives July 24 for $399

At Unpacked 2024, the company shared more details about the Galaxy Ring, which represents the first take on the category from a hardware giant. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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XNXX joins handful of adult sites subject to EU’s strictest content moderation rules

The European Union has designated adult content website XNXX as subject to the strictest level of content regulation under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) after it notified the bloc it had passed the usage threshold of more than 45 … Continue reading

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As Microsoft leaves its observer seat, OpenAI says it won’t have any more observers

Months after Microsoft gained an observer seat on OpenAI’s board, the company is leaving the position of the non-voting seat. In a letter sent to OpenAI on Tuesday, Microsoft said that the company has seen enough progress being made in … Continue reading

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Deep tech startups with very technical CEOs raise larger rounds, research finds

SaaS founders trying to figure out what it takes to raise their next round can refer to Point Nine’s famous yearly SaaS Funding Napkin. (The term refers to “back of the napkin” plans or calculations.) Now, European hardware deep tech … Continue reading

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Iceland is dodging the VC doldrums as Frumtak Ventures lands $87 million for its fourth fund

Iceland’s startup scene is punching above its weight. That’s perhaps in part because it kept the 2021 hype in check, but mostly because its tech ecosystem is coming of age. Iceland attracted the most venture capital per capita of all … Continue reading

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Index Ventures raises $2.3 billion for new venture and growth funds

Index Ventures is announcing $2.3 billion in new funds to finance the next generation of tech startups globally. These new funds are spread across different stages with $800 million dedicated to venture investment and $1.5 billion set aside for growth … Continue reading

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Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps

Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. Anthropic released several new features on Tuesday to help developers create more useful applications … Continue reading

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AI startup Hebbia raised $130M at a $700M valuation on $13 million of profitable revenue

Hebbia, a startup that uses generative AI to search large documents and respond to large questions, has raised a $130 million Series B at a roughly $700 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Index Ventures, Google Ventures … Continue reading

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NovoNutrients tweaks its bugs to turn CO2 into protein for people and pets

NovoNutrients has raised a $18 million Series A round from investors to build a pilot-scale facility to prove that its fermentation process works at scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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