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 […]
The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia
We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that what we’re reading is being written by a large language model. But it’s very difficult to pin down. For several months last year, everyone became convinced that certain words like “explore” and “underscore” could identify the model, but the evidence was thin, and as the models became more […]
Spotify’s latest feature now lets you transfer playlists from other services
Spotify makes it easy for users to switch from other streaming services. The company on Thursday announced an integration with TuneMyMusic, a tool that allows you to transfer playlists from other streaming services to your Spotify library. This new feature is currently rolling out to all Spotify users and can be found in the “Your […]
Google releases latest image generation model “Nano Banana Pro”
Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing features, higher resolution, more accurate text rendering, and web search capabilities. The new model, called Nano Banana Pro, is built on Google’s latest large-scale language model, Gemini 3, which was released earlier this week. According to the company, Nano Banana Pro improves on the previous […]