Source: Kalsi’s valuation jumps to $11 billion after $1 billion major funding
Karsi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, raised a whopping $1 billion at a valuation of $11 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. The round comes less than two months after the seven-year-old startup announced $300 million in funding at a previous valuation of $5 billion. The round […]
Salesforce announces some customer data was accessed after Gainsight breach
Salesforce announced Wednesday that it is investigating a breach of “Salesforce data for certain customers” through an app published by Gainsight, which sells a platform for other companies to manage their customers. In a notice published late Wednesday, Salesforce said the hack involved “Gainsight published applications connected to Salesforce that are installed and managed directly […]
Up to 20 people can join a group chat by accepting the invitation. Personal settings and memory are kept private for each user, the company said. Image credit: OpenAI グループ チャットを開始するには、ユーザーは人のアイコンをタップし、直接またはリンクを共有して参加者を追加する必要があります。 Everyone will be asked to set up a short profile including their name, username, and photo. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT knows when to join […]
Why founders stopped social advertising for Taylor Swift concerts and prison tablets
Build Mode is back with another episode! This season focuses on lessons learned from the world of go-to-market strategy. Startup Battlefield editor Isabelle Johannessen spoke to Luna co-founder Jas Schembri-Stothart and Untapped Solutions founder Andre Peart about their unique perspectives on reaching niche customer segments following their candidacy in the 2024 Startup Battlefield competition. In […]
Mixup is a new Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text, and doodles
The team of former Googlers behind the 3D design app Rooms from Things, Inc. has announced their latest project: a playful AI photo editor called Mixup. The iOS-only app allows anyone to create new AI-generated photos using “recipes.” Recipes are like Mad Libs-style fill-in-the-blank prompts for photos, text, or sketches. For example, you can have […]
The marketing guru who built Khosla Ventures into an AI powerhouse is stepping forward
Shernaz Dever may be small in stature, but big in influence. Over 30 years in Silicon Valley, she has mastered the art of calling anyone with a simple text: “Can I call you?” or “Let’s talk tomorrow” and they do. Now, as he prepares to leave Khosla Ventures (KV) after nearly five years as the […]
Gemini 3 refused to believe it was 2025, but an uproar ensued.
Every time you hear a billionaire (or billionaire) CEO explain how LLM-based agents will take all jobs from humans, remember this funny and eloquent anecdote about the limits of AI. Renowned AI researcher Andrei Karpathy had one day’s early access to Google’s latest model, Gemini 3, but when he said the year was 2025, Gemini […]
ShadowRay 2.0 exploits unpatched Ray flaw to build self-spreading GPU cryptomining botnet
November 20, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerabilities / Cloud Computing Oligo Security has warned that an attack is underway that exploits a two-year-old security flaw in the Ray open source artificial intelligence (AI) framework to turn infected clusters powered by NVIDIA GPUs into self-replicating cryptocurrency mining botnets. The activity, codenamed “ShadowRay 2.0,” is an evolution of a previous […]
Comet 3I/ATLAS Gallery: See images of NASA’s much-anticipated interstellar visitor
NASA has released a treasure trove of 3I/ATLAS images of comets, giving us our closest look yet at an interstellar visitor. The U.S. government shutdown, which lasted from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, delayed the release of much-anticipated images, including snapshots taken by instruments around Mars and the Sun over the past few months. Live […]
Scientists placed moss on the outside of the International Space Station for nine months and then continued to grow it on Earth
Scientists have found that moss spores can survive long-duration space travel. The spores spent nine months outside the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to Earth, where more than 80% of the spores were still able to reproduce. The discovery deepens our understanding of how plant species survive in extreme conditions, the researchers said in […]