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Journalist. Mom. Wife. Traveler. Speaks English, American, Russian, Franglais, Spanglish, in metaphors. [email protected] DMs OPEN

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Podcasting remains a big, growing, but also very tough market dominated by large platform players. Interesting to see one of the standout independent players raising right now to double down and stay the course. tip Techmeme

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Media monitoring and analytics firm Meltwater raises ~$65M from PE firm Verdane for an 11% stake at a $592M valuation, down from $1B+ valuation in December 2020 (Ingrid / TechCrunch)

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Google Nest Renew, an ambitious clean energy side hustle of Google Nest, had less than 225,000 customers. Now it's being spun out + merged w/its partner provider, in the latest streamlining of Nest. Hardware is hard, but clean tech may be even harder. tip Techmeme

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Pretty impressively played hand here (I don't mean the one holding the iPhone in the illo below). I bet Eric Bauswell has SOME STORIES TO TELL.

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Cubic made a significant pivot some years ago from being an MVNO for phones to connected vehicles. Now it's taking a majority investment from SBC that values it over $1B. tip Techmeme

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There is something v disturbing to me about an esteemed institution concluding 'no harm' b/c it lacks the evidence to determine if there is harm (and admit that the tech co's have it and do not share it). As a parent, I'm going to ignore this one, out of an abundance of caution.

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From yesterday, sobering numbers laying out the state of play right now with venture in Europe, a little silver lining too.

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So much focus in AI now on software + genAI, but here's a smart startup applying AI to physical challenges: accelerating simulations for industrial product innovations in. Led by a former F1 eng superstar, helping write the next chaper in this story. tip @techmeme

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Hard to take any X stats at face value (we don't know how much dodgy content it doesn't address, no auditing etc). Still notable they post what they do. The vast majority of X announcements in the last year have been about trust and safety: it remains a big problem. tip Techmeme

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Turkey's Getir is still trying to close a $500m round at a $2.5B valuation (recall it was valued at almost $12B in March 2022).😬Meanwhile, positioning itself as a consolidator, it's growing its profile in the US... tip Techmeme

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A quiet giant in the world of fintech, among the army of startups building tools for legacy banks to compete better with newer challengers. Worth a look.

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You have to wonder what is going on with Slack that they've parted ways with a CEO who lasted less than a year. (Ping any of us if you have insight, we can talk anonymously.) techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/bum… story from Ron and Sarah.

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I think there are things getting done, but day two of the AI Safety Summit brings even less access for media (especially scummy bloggers like me). So much for transparency in AI discourse and development!

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Utterly exhausted but interesting day. Someone told me she didn’t expect a lot of kumbayah but actually I’m pretty sure that’s what happened.

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If you’re going to the AI Safety Summit tomorrow let me know if you’d like to meet. (I will be there and we love to hear your thoughts.)

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Super interesting, smart startup, tons of patents. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets scooped up by a co. looking for new approaches to offering services and network to a wide number of users, bypassing telcos in the process. (apple, google, amazon all fit that bucket)

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Scoop confirmed... Interesting esp considering how much of Israeli tech has ground to a halt in the current climate. Talon (the other deal Palo Alto is working on) is still in progress. tip Techmeme

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