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In its annual letter released Thursday, Payments Giant Stripe declared that the data is “looking at the AI boom,” revealing that artificial intelligence startups are growing faster than traditional SaaS companies have historically. On the chart, Stripe showed that the top 100 AI companies (by revenue) could achieve $5 million in annual revenue in 24 months of 2024 compared to the top 100 SaaS companies that took 37 months to reach the same milestone in 2018. “Our 2024 data shows that these startups are building their businesses at a record-breaking pace,” writes Patrick and John Collison, CEOs and co-founders of…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 27, 2025, ChainWire Funtico’s Chief Product Officer, Pavel Antohe, took to the centre stage at AIBC 2025 in Dubai, taking part in the high-profile panel “Play-to-earn: Best Strategy for Decentralized Platforms and Social Media.” Cointelegraph’s Sam Shami and Blum.io’s Gleb Kostarev were there. This discussion delves into the evolving landscape of Play-to-earn (P2E) games and its future sustainability. Navigate challenges in playground spaces The P2E sector faces serious turbulence with over 30% of blockchain game projects being either cancelled or canceled in 2023. Many projects struggled with sustainability, user retention, and economic balance, leading to…
Skylo, an IoT startup that offers Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite connectivity, has secured $30 million in an overly subscribed funding round. The investment was led by NGP Capital and was joined by Westly Group, Intel Capital, BMW I Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Next47 and others. This brings Skylo’s total funding to $183 million. The new capital will accelerate Skyro’s reach to Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, expanding US coverage, including Alaska, Hawaii and US territories through a partnership with Viasat. Skylo’s network is already in use across five continents that connect smartphones, vehicles and IoT devices without the need for additional…
Deep Knight co-founders Lucas Young and Thomas Lee have been friends since childhood. Both worked as software engineers at Google. Digital Night Vision Tech when Young decides to crack the code on an issue that has been wreaking havoc on the US military for decades. Most night vision technologies are still analog. The goggles use photo lenses and chemical processes to convert nightly scarce light into images, Young told TechCrunch. It also costs between $13,000 and $30,000 from military contractors such as L3Harris and Elbit America. For years, the US Army has tried to digitalize high-tech, but focuses primarily on…
Right-wing influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are under investigation in Romania, including human trafficking, but have arrived in the US after authorities lifted travel restrictions imposed on the pair as part of the case. The dual UK and US citizenship brothers left Romanian capital Bucharest on a Florida-bound private jet Thursday morning after Romania’s anti-organized crime agency DIICOT said it had approved a request to “amend” the travel ban. Romanian prosecutors detained former kickboxer Andrew Tate, 38, and his brother Tristan, 36, in 2022, and founded criminal organizations in Romania and the UK in 2021, blocking human trafficking, trafficking…
Former Openai CTO Mira Murati has officially launched Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research company that is “more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable” of AI systems. The startup came out of Stealth last week and has already attracted serious investors’ attention, with fundraising aiming to be valued at $9 billion. The launch will take place five months after Murati, an engineer with a Dartmouth education that is rich in AI experiences, resigns more than six years later. Murati’s vision for AI Thinking Machines Lab is set up to build AI models that focus on human-AI collaboration. The company has…
WHO: Afghanistan vs AustraliaContents: ICC Champions Trophy – Group B GameWhen: Friday, February 28th at 2pm (09:00 GMT)Location: Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, PakistanFollow Al Jazeera’s live photos and text commentary streams from 05:00 GMT. Afghanistan has a lot in their hearts when they face Australia in the final group game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 held in Lahore on Friday. The rise in men’s cricket opposes the most successful teams in all ICC tournaments. But that’s not all. The match takes place under a cloud of prolonged political tension between the two countries and their respective cricket boards. Australia has…
In recent weeks, a mysterious viral disease has emerged in parts of the Western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leading to at least 53 deaths, officials say. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), clinicians are particularly concerned about the short period of time between the onset of what appears to be a “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms and the short period of death, which is only 48 hours. This is the latest virus outbreak that has collided with the East African region over the past year, especially after the outbreak of Marburg and MPOX disease. In particular, DRCs are susceptible…
To take on YouTube, Tiktok has revamped its desktop platform with several new features. On Thursday, the company announced that the web-based experience will feature new modular layouts, updates for feeds, new exploration tabs, immersive full-screen live game streaming and a floating player. The new web layout for social networks has a relocated navigation bar designed to allow for a more immersive and distracting viewing experience along the mobile version of Tiktok. Additionally, game streamers can now be “live” in portrait or landscape mode. Users on the desktop will see a horizontal view, while mobile users can also simply rotate…
February 27, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The new campaign targets Taiwanese businesses using malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of a phishing email disguised as the country’s national tax office. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, shows a deviation from previous attack chains that leveraged malicious game-related applications. “The sender claimed that the attached malicious files were a list of companies scheduled for tax inspections, and asked the recipient to transfer the information to the company’s treasurer,” security researcher Pay Han Riao said in a report shared with Hacker News. This attachment mimics the official Treasury document…