OpenAI says ChatGPT has hit 20M paid subscribers, up from 15.5M at the end of 2024, suggesting the company is making at least $415M in monthly revenue
Before today's main column about the AI attention war between OpenAI and Google, there's OpenAI news from my colleague Natasha …
France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation
it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/... @e_estonia : “The problem in t...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
A look at Worldcoin, which reorganized under parent company Tools for Humanity and lets users sign up via iris scans for a global ID and financial services
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Tweets: @riptari and @gonzalorecio_ Tweets: Natasha / @riptari : So the Big AI business model is coming into focus: They make it impossible to know who's human online & t...
All three founders of online trading service Pipe are stepping down as the company looks for a “veteran” CEO; Pipe raised $250M at a $2B valuation in May 2021
Setting the scene — The co-founders of revenue-based financing … Nancy Dahlberg / Refresh Miami : Pipe co-founders step down and search for ‘veteran’ CEO is launched Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Three Co...
A CJEU ruling in a Lithuanian case involving the use of sensitive personal data could have implications for online services that use background tracking for ads
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 1 August 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling … Tweets: Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna / @gabrielazanfir : Very significant judgment today from the #CJEU Gra...
Meta has sent ~90 subpoenas related to the FTC's antitrust case to companies including Dispo, which says the requests are “overbroad, vexatious, and harassing”
On a quest to show the FTC that it isn't a monopoly, Meta flooded a wide swath of major tech companies with subpoenas last month. Tweets: @nmasc_ , @dlisscious , @seyitaylor , and @tayhatmaker Tweets:...
Tweets by 8VC's Joe Lonsdale about “woke” tech diversity prompt swift criticism from tech investors as he attempts to recontextualize his earlier statements
Last week, in response to someone who tweeted that VCs were racist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale … Tweets: @thevaluesvc , @ceonyc , @triketora , @brianbrackeen , @jtlonsdale , @jtl...
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021 with a $59 billion all-time high in exits
but are on track for a stellar 2021 Fortune : Female-founded startups had a dire 2020. In 2021, they're breaking records for money raised and exits Tweets: Lizelle van Vuuren / @heylizelle : Women are...
AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services
AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack … Source: AngelList Venture and AngelList Venture Tweets: @angellist , @alexh_johnson ...