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Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders

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When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners. The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital context. Fast-forward to today, and there are companies scraping […]

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Tengo untangles the messy world of public sector procurement with AI

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Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It is a software-as-service tool that helps companies handle public tenders at scale — a bit like Govly in the U.S. Originally created within the startup studio Hexa, the startup raised a €3 million funding round led by Point Nine ($3.2 million at today’s

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Smashing, from Goodreads’ co-founder, curates the best of the web using AI and human recommendations

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Goodreads‘ co-founder Otis Chandler is back to build the next big app community. But this time, his focus isn’t on books; it’s on the content you can find online, including news articles, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts and more. With Smashing, an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta,

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Coder nabs new funds to move dev environments to the cloud

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Devs often rely on local environments — i.e. their laptops — to write, build and test code before shipping it to a cloud service to integrate and deploy it. There’s nothing wrong with that approach. But local development can introduce challenges, like conflicts between dev environments and, in the worst case, security exploits. The usability

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TestParty raises $4 million to help automate the coding for accessible websites

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TestParty, a software compliance company powered by AI, announced a $4 million seed round today co-led by Harlem Capital and the Urban Innovation Fund.  Michael Bervell and Jason Tan, the company’s CEO and CTO respectively, co-founded TestParty in March 2023 to automatically rewrite source code to help businesses avoid violating global digital accessibility regulations like

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India’s Zyod raises $18M to expand its tech-enabled fashion manufacturing to more countries

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Zyod is an Indian startup offering its tech platform to global fashion brands to help them in their entire design-to-delivery process. It’s raised $18 million in a new funding round to expand its presence to more than 40 countries worldwide. The Gurugram-based startup works with Indian factories to help them manufacture fashion wear for global

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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong

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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad DEI? The acronym is near-poisonous now — a word that creates almost instant tension between those who embrace it and those who want it dead. A prime example of this divide was the response to startup Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang’s post on X last week. He wrote about

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Khosla-backed Marble, built by former Headway founders, offers affordable group therapy for teens

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Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts are surging among U.S. teens. A recent report from the Center of Disease Control found that nearly one in three girls have seriously considered suicide, and a significant number, 13% have actually attempted it. Psychologists have various theories about what’s causing adolescent mental health crises.   Some blame the

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