Simile, which uses AI to help companies predict human behavior, including guessing items customers might buy, raised $100M led by Index and emerges from stealth
- Simile is building a lab to help predict peoples' actions — The company is backed by Index, A* and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li
Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters
Qwen 50.6k — Safetensors qwen3_vl_moe Julian Nabil / Forbes Middle East : Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Max AI Model With Over 1T Parameters Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Alibaba Releases Qwen3-VL O...
A profile of headhunter Peterson Conway, who worked with Palantir and other Silicon Valley defense and hard tech firms and is now the talent head at VC firm A*
Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch :
Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern
You are probably sick of hearing about OpenAI palace intrigue … Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : OpenAI Is Close to AI Breakthrough That Could Threaten Humanity: Report Kate Seamons / Newser : Reuters:...
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty
think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...
Pomelo, an international money transfer service that lets US senders offer credit cards to recipients in the Philippines, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed
The first financial technology platform to combine consumer credit and remittance transfer FinSMEs : Pomelo Raises $70M in Funding Tweets: Charlize Alcaraz / @charlizealcaraz : Filipino FinTech startu...
A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details
something money-market funds avoid.” By @ZekeFaux https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: https://www.bloomberg.co...
Anonymous Bitcoin philanthropist Pine discusses his donations of ~5000 BTC, now worth ~$57M; non-profits such as EFF and Watsi describe receiving the donations
picking organizations they believe in, giving money with few strings attached, and letting organizations focus on their mission,” https://www.philanthropy.com/ ... DL Jung / @dariusjung : I'll admit t...
The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses
I have been reading the slow but meaningful fall … Reed Albergotti / The Information : Venture Capitalists, Tech Leaders Back ‘Decency Pledge’ Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Binary Capital reportedly d...
Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia, many of them popular from pro-Trump “news” during election; publishers assumed they were safe after buying ads
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @niemanlab , @buzzfeedben , @rkapkap , @davidmackau , @craigsilverman , @mattmittenthal , @miriamelder , and @jimwaterson Tweets: @niemanlab : The topics of kille...