YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California
New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out
across NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, PayPal, YouTube, Slack, Meta—we are now hundreds strong.Hemant Taneja /@htaneja:This is not politics as usual. As inves...
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border agents killed Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony”
To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice
Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out
Some tech workers are pressuring the industry's top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti …
Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers
ZDNET's key takeaways — Personal Intelligence scans your apps to improve Gemini answers. — The feature is off by default and won't train on sensitive data.
Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers
ZDNET's key takeaways — Personal Intelligence scans your apps to improve Gemini answers. — The feature is off by default and won't train on sensitive data.
Greptile, maker of an AI-powered code review tool, raised a $25M Series A led by Benchmark and launches Greptile v3
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Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M
Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital.
Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X
'Ask Photos isn't where it needs to be,' says a product manager for Google Photos.
Google unveils new Photos features, including a redesigned editor with AI features rolling out globally to Android next month and to iOS “later this year”
The UI has been redesigned to focus on Google's AI Magic Editor features.
Canary Technologies, which offers tools for hotel guest management, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Canary Technologies, which offers tools for hotel guest management, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M
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Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI
Michael Seibel steps down as YC's managing director, says he did not feel disappointed when he was not tapped as CEO but would have accepted the job if offered
Steven Levy / Wired :
Snowflake says that CEO Frank Slootman is retiring, and reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $774.7M and Q1 product revenue guidance below est.; SNOW drops 20%+
acq by EMC for $2.4B ServiceNow—$9B rev Snowflake—$2.5B rev Tanay Jaipuria / @tanayj : As the saying goes, you either die a startup or live long enough to appoint a desi CEO [image...
With YC's increasingly heated public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator's founder and some investors, the VC appears curiously on the defensive lately
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Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …
Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck.
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partn...