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Cendana, Kline Hill have a fresh $105M to buy stakes in seed VC funds from LPs looking to sell

Fund-of-funds investor Cendana Capital has joined with Kline Hill Partners for a new oversubscribed fund to buy out stakes from seed LPs looking for liquidity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration

Threads. Mastodon. Bluesky. Substack Notes. Post. Nostr. Spoutible. There’s no shortage of X competitors in the months following the acquisition of the text-based social network formerly known as Twitter by Elon Musk. Now you can add one more startup to … Continue reading

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Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)

Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to Spotify

Substack announced on Thursday it’s introducing a few new features for podcasters on its platform. Most notably, the company is rolling out a Spotify integration that will allow podcasters on Substack to sync and distribute all of their free and … Continue reading

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Humane’s $699 AI Pin is now available

Humane today announced the availability of its first product, the AI Pin. The Bay Area-based hardware startup has been kicking around since 2017, a year after cofounders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri left Apple. Since then, the company has been … Continue reading

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European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robot

Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility. Based in Austria, Magna manufacturers and assembles cars for a number of Europe’s top automakers, including Mercedes, Jaguar and BMW. As is often the … Continue reading

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Meta will auto-blur nudity in Instagram DMs in latest teen safety step

Meta has announced it’s testing new features on Instagram intended to help safeguard young people from unwanted nudity or sextortion scams. This includes a feature called Nudity Protection in DMs, which automatically blurs images detected as containing nudity. The tech … Continue reading

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Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone

Nothing lasts forever. Nowhere is the truism more apt than in consumer tech. This is a land inhabited by the eternally restless — always on the make for the next big thing. The smartphone has, by all accounts, had a … Continue reading

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Simbian brings AI to existing security tools

Simbian is a cybersecurity platform that effectively controls other cybersecurity platforms as well as security apps and tooling. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amazon, eyeing up AI, adds Andrew Ng to its board; ex-MTV exec McGrath to step down

If corporate boards of directors signal something about where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s just made an interesting move to change up its direction. The company has just announced that Andrew Ng — a prominent figure in the … Continue reading

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