Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B
Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher …
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's autopilot unit, unveils Eureka Labs, a “new kind of school” aiming to support teachers with AI
We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case [image] Oliver Hsu / @oyhsu ...
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's autopilot unit, unveils Eureka Labs, a “new kind of school” aiming to support teachers with AI
We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case [image] Jeff Dean / @jeffdea...
How Dutch privacy negotiators, empowered by GDPR, have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others, as the Netherlands punches above its weight
Natasha Singer / New York Times : Tweets: @avilarenata , @coolshannes , @juliesbrill , and @jason_kint Tweets: Renata Avila / @avilarenata : Europe could/must build its own sovereign, decentralised, ...
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, to select customers in the US
The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format — Why Amazon Sometimes Unveils Products You Can't Actually Buy Tweets: @frankcatalano , @sebas...
Machine learning-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of US school shootings, no matter how expansive and intricate the systems become
Chris Gilliard / Wired : Tweets: @hypervisible , @chrisggarrod , @barryfriedman1 , @eileenguo , @missig_geek , @iwillleavenow , @evacide , and @autumm Tweets: @hypervisible : New Wired piece. “...at ...
ML-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of school shootings in the US, no matter how expansive and intricate those systems become
The failure is not only in the spurious systems, but in the belief that more data can improve them. — If we are to believe the purveyors … Tweets: @hypervisible , @autumm , @barryfriedman1 , @eileen...
Edtech startup Scaler, which offers upskilling courses like data science and ML to working professionals in India, raises a $55M Series B at a $710M valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Report: VC funding in China for e-commerce, edtech, and social startups fell in 2021, but jumped for semiconductors, robotics, and other hard tech
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times : Tweets: @muradahmed Tweets: Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : VC money was one flowing into China's consumer tech start ups. Now its fleeing and heading to “hard tech” lea...
Report: Indian startups raised $10B+ in a quarter for the first time in Q3 2021, with fintech, edtech, and SaaS startups accounting for ~50% of total funding
Tushar Deep Singh / The Economic Times : Source: PwC India .