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Beware AI’s hidden costs before they bankrupt innovation

The Daily Stack - Aspirational Brand Graveyard

xAI releases Grok-2, adds image generation on X

Europe wants platforms to label AI-generated

Spotify reports strong user growth as it is raising subscription price

Highlights of the Week - (10/30/2020)

The Changing Tide of Hospitality

Oprah just had an AI special with Sam Altman and Bill Gates

Highlights of the Week (11/06/2020)

Four Emerging Industries of 2021

The BNPL Bubble Is About to Burst

Inside the Private-Debt Boom

The Latest in Childcare 👪

Forbes CEO Next List: 2022

Generational Trends in Consumer Behavior

Bed Bath & the great Beyond

Happy 1st Anniversary! 🎉

Financial Wellness Goals

What HealthTech Can Learn from FinTech

Highlights of the Week (May 13, 2022)

Happy International Women’s Day 🚺

The 30 Oldest Private Companies on PrivCo

Impact of Artificial Intelligence Startups

Amazon wants to host companies’ custom generative AI models

Highlights of the Week (March 25, 2022)

Q2 funding and M&A recap, a look at China's recovery

The Class of COVID-19

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

Opening up SnapChat

The Business of Voting by Mail 📬

Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord

TikTok gives parents personalized control over the content their teens see

Spotify adds music videos

Nvidia Gives Robotics A Major Upgrade

What Happens When Generative AI's Hype Fades Out?

Big Tech's Privacy Blocking Crusade

Google brings its Gemini AI to Gmail

X is giving blue checks to influential users

Highlights of the Week (Feb 26, 2021)

Brands That Matter In 2022

The Substack Phenomena

Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store

Investment Highlight: Regenerative Farming 🌱

Americans Are on the Move Again

But, What About After-School?

Cannabis Startups Smoking the Competition 🔥

Future of FemTech

Electric Cars Are Taking Off, When Will Battery Recycling Follow?

Threads won’t be fun — but it will give brands a refuge from Twitter

India Leads Mental Health App Usage

Highlights of the Week (11/20/2020)

President Biden issues executive order to set standards for AI safety and security

Angel Investing is Becoming the It Form of Social Currency

Tech Bubble 2.0

a16Z bets big on VeeFriends

The 41 World-Changing Ideas of 2023

Rising use of SaaS SEO

Is ChatGPT domination hitting Stack Overflow?

How Amazon has changed e-commerce

Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs

Social distancing fatigue

Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead

Amazon expands its virtual health clinic nationwide

Venture FOMO Returns with A.I. Deals

NBA Playoffs Edition: The Business of Basketball

Most valued company in the US

CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down

Welcome 2021 - New Year’s Eve Edition

Predictions for 2021

Apple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites

Highlights of the Week (Feb 5, 2021)

The Blue Apron for Flowers

Waymo to double down on winter testing its robotaxis

Tech Trend Predictions of 2023

SEC subpoenas PayPal over its USD-pegged stablecoin

LexisNexis is embracing generative AI to ease legal writing and research

Why It’s the Age of the Investor-Entrepreneur

The State of Diversity in Global Private Markets

Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion

Discovering Private Company Financial Data

Honoring Black History Month

On-Demand Grocery’s Real Cost

Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account

The Great Chip Shortage Saga

Highlights of the Week (Apr 9, 2021)

Can crypto’s recent wins resurrect venture interest?

Class of 2020 Unicorns

The regulatory clock is ticking for TikTok

Anthropic launches a new premium plan for businesses

Looking East at the Future of Logistics

Cuban Bets Big on His Legacy

Highlights of the Week (June 11, 2021)

Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet

YouTube is now cracking down on ad-blockers globally

Will Ghost Kitchens Flame Out? 🔥

Most Resilient Companies of 2020

Going Private has It's Benefits!

Highlights of the Week (12/11/2020)

Making the Economics of Ecommerce Work

IBM rolls out new generative AI features and models

Accessing private company financials

Investor Highlight: Lerer Hippeau

Highlights of the Week (June 25, 2021)

OpenAI releases iPhone version of ChatGPT

Highlights of the Week (June 3, 2022)

The Internet for all

The New Agricultural Revolution Has Started

The Remaking of Kleiner Perkins

Wiping Out Single-Use Plastics

WeWork files for bankruptcy

High Growth Companies of Q1, 2021

Silver Linings For Tech In 2023

WhatsApp rolls out support for HD video

Bank of America weighs in on a mild recession

TikTok's B2B glow up

Content writer says all of his clients replaced him with ChatGPT

Micromobility post-COVID 🚲

Shipping Congestion and Supply Chain Management 🚢

Highlights of the Week (November 26, 2021)

Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4

Revolutionizing the Clinical Trial Process

Changing Geography of Startups

PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin

Collaboration in the Modern Workplace

Trying to connect

Venture Fund Opens to Individual Investors

10 High-Growth Companies to Watch

Finding Fido 🐶🐱

The Wild West of Web 3.0

Oyo shelves IPO plans for second time

Travelers Take to the Road for the Holidays

Plaid’s new president has IPO experience

Beyoncé’s new album is a statement against AI music

Private MedTech Company Battles Apple in Patent Fight

Consumers Change Food Delivery Habits

The Rise of the Micropreneur

Who Wants to Live in the Metaverse?

Tech Trends of 2023

Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games

The age of AI BS

Investor Highlight: Sequoia Capital

The Digital Enterprise Workplace

TikTok ads will now include AI avatars

Who's leading in climate tech? 🏅

Potential of NFTs

“That would be really boring, wouldn’t it?”

Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info

Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise sets it up for IPO

OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it

Robotaxis' First Fares

What's on the menu for meal kits?

Tech's Hollywood Moment

Looking Back on 2022

Scaling up SoCal

The Future of Work

Evolution of AR Technology

Durov arrest boosts Telegram app downloads

Financial Literacy Tech

Apple warns iPhone users of spyware attacks

Why we must teach AI to empathize with us

The multi-faceted nature of A16Z

CPGs Are Bracing for More Volatility in 2023

Americans Went Wild for Amazon Prime Day

How Bots Corrupted Advertising

The Booming PetTech landscape 🐶🐱

Snapshot of Supporters in Health Tech

Cloud's rise to IPOs ☁

The 50 Top Growth Companies of Q2, 2021

The Hot New Trophy Asset: A Pro Pickleball Team

The Strength of Pet Tech 🐾

The Used Car 🚘 Boom!

Why some media flop while others win during COVID

Apple’s Acquisition Binge Spree

AngelList expands into private equity

Brex Emerges as Fintech Powerhouse in the Wake of SVB's Unraveling

Salesforce AI chatbot Agentforce hits general availability

Insurtech's Resurgence

What’s Next for NFTs and Cryptocurrencies? 🔮

Old favorite is back! Big Tech pulling Ad spend?

The Hype of E-Sports is Dwindling

Amazon Is Winging It

23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data

Chaos at OpenAI adds fuel to the AI talent poaching war

Whispers of A.I's Modular Future

The Titans of Crypto

Trying to connect

Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature

The surveillance society

What You've Missed in the Cares Act

Investment Highlight: Robotics and the future of work

Flexport Plans to Cut Up to 30% of Workforce

Cannabis, the winner of the US Election

The Jobs Report & Families 👪

Highlights of the Week (July 22, 2022)

The Data Delusion

Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut

"Striketober" Progress Report

Fighting Discrimination in Tech

2021 IPO Performance

The Titans Of Tech Investing Are Staying Warm This Winter

Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41%

Elon Musk’s Boring Company

The “Becky” Investment Strategy

Go Home for the Holidays in an Autonomous Vehicle

Highlights of the Week (March 4, 2022)

Mashup of Trading Cards and NFTs

Female Representation in Startups

Reddit plans to launch IPO in March

Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class

Highlights of the Week (May 20, 2022)

Evolution of online communities 💬

EV Battery Prices Are On The Rise

Nvidia Deepens Push Into AWS’ Turf

Investor Highlight: Tiger Global Management

Online Auction is the New Retail Therapy

Private Healthcare Companies on the lookout

Ghost Kitchen Pop-Up Trend

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies

Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users

Tiger Global Marked Down Investments in Private Companies

Cooking up a Fury

The new Pokémon app will put you to sleep

Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC

It's National Fast Food Day 🍔🍟

The Lack of SPAC

Investor Highlight: SV Angel

Serve Robotics to go public

Biden signs bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn't sell

Investors are growing increasingly wary of AI

The Thriving Industry of Mental Health

What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

Montana’s ban on TikTok is now on hold

Ride sharing apps struggle amidst COVID crisis

Is Google's Search Dominance About To End?

'Tis The Shopping Season Online 📦

US Startup Funding Down 50% In Q3

Self-Driving Car Only Lanes?

Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’

Acquisitions Are Up

Investor Highlight: International Women's Day

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2023

Highlights of the Week (April 29, 2022)

Investor Trend: VC Job Boards

Second look at consignments

Investor Highlight: General Atlantic's BeyondNetZero

Biggest Investment Sectors of 2022

The Business of Jail Phone Calls

Amazon consolidates Amazon Clinic into the One Medical brand

What if we never go back to the office?

Next Gen of Casual Athletics 🎳⛳

DTC Retail Trends to Watch in 2023

No One Is Ready to Go Home

Influencers find new ways to make money 🤑

Google starts opening up access to its new generative AI capabilities

What Kamala Harris has said about AI and tech

Tech on the Ballot

Cybersecurity in a Post-COVID World

Class is in session with Prof. Alexa

Private Markets Turn Down The Volume

Top 20 Best Performing Small Cap PE Firms

When the CEO Leaves

Roblox invites its community to build mature experiences for 17+ users

Get paid to read emails

Strategies for building AI tools people will actually use at work

Love is Blind IRL at your own risk | PrivCo's Daily Stacks

Investor Highlight: Celebrity VCs

Reddit should go public at $5B

The Electric Truck Race

Automation Saves Travel

Anthropic’s Claude surpasses $1M in mobile app revenue

Streamer Plex launches its long-promised movie rentals store

Startups for Music Fans Are a Hit With Investors

Apple Vision Pro goes on sale Feb 2 for $3,500

Celebrities' Sporty Investments

Highlights of the Week (Jan 22, 2021)

We will all be swimming in oil

Healthcare Trends of Q1, 2021

Let your competitors talk to your next hire

Highlights of the Week (2021/01/08)

Highlights of the Week (August 13, 2021)

What's with all the layoffs?

Best in Beauty 💄

The Top Investor Coverage of 2021

Trust in Tech 2022 Report

OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic

Personalized Tailors Go Mainstream

FTC refers TikTok child privacy case to Justice Department

E-Commerce is Going Robotic

OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data

Starlink hits 4 million subscribers

HIghlights of the Week (May 27, 2022)

Why genome-editing is getting all the biotech funding 🧬

20x Growth in Social Games

Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company

It’s All About the (Good) Microbes 🦠

CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage

Rivian’s path to survival is now remarkably clear

Product Updates: Contact Data That Gets You Connected to the Right People

Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run server

Creator Economy Breakout Stars 💫

The fastest growing startup in Europe

China’s robotaxi darlings apply the brakes

Malwarebytes lays off 100 employees ahead of business split

How Liquid Death Became a Generational Drink

TikTok may start serving you Google Search results

Highlights of the Week (12/4/2020)

Homeowners Insurance 📈

Who is taking on venture debts?

Joby Aviation receives permit to fly first eVTOL built on production line

Is this the bottom for Boeing?

The Unexpected AI in Call Centers

Q3 Downward Trends in Funding & Deal Activities

EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy

Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans

Top Economist Says Interest Rates will be Higher, Faster, & Last Longer

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini

Growing into the era of AgriTech.

Restaurant Tech Specials 🍔

IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java

Twitter's Biggest Problem May Be Its Advertisers

Regulators close investigation into Blue Origin

The Winner of the Attention Economy

Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2022

The Magic of Mushrooms 🍄

Deep Tech Investment is Needed to Solve Climate Crisis

Foreshadowing the new normal with remote learning

Anduril working on AI weapons to 'swiftly win any war'

🚀 Launching Our Newest Product! Select + Contact Data

Goodbye 2020 - Q2 Edition

Polaris Dawn will push the limits of SpaceX’s human spaceflight program

Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music

Highlights of the Week (July 8, 2022)

Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats

In 2023, Reality Tempers Our Revolutionary Bent

What You Need To Know About OpenAI’s $300M Share Sale

Why Everything is AI in 2023?

Accessing private company financials

Scaling E-Commerce 🚀

Can Artists Compete with A.I.?

Will AI Replace Developers?

Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter

The Knowledge Sharing Society

Investor Highlight: Breakthrough Energy & Project-Based Investing

The Quick Race Towards No Code.

Gamify your health

Highlights of the Week (12/18/2020)

Highlights of the Week (2020/01/15)

Autonomous Truck Xos Going Public 🚛

The IPO Drought 🥵

NBA’s Slam Dunk Valuations

Parallel Universes

The New Age Arms Race

Where Billions are Being Spent in a Slowing Economy

Discord cuts 4% of staff

Layoffs hit rocket engine maker Ursa Major

Opera lets users download and use LLMs locally

Hey look, unicorns are rare again!

Google makes passkeys the default sign-in method

Black Founders Spotlight

The Future of Digital Health

Adobe calls off plans to acquire Figma for $20 billion

The Meatless Wonders of the World

🚀 Launching Our Newest Product! Select + Contact Data

Why AI-Managed Supply Chains Have Fallen Short

Billionaires' Race to Space 🚀

The Next Generation Of VCs

OpenAI to open its first EU office

Bing Chat is now Copilot

COVID is exposing network vulnerabilities

Maybe compliance tech really is a good startup bet

IPOs of the New Year

What McKinsey Says About the Post-Pandemic World

Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion

The Future of Sustainable Food Celebrates Earth Day 🌎

All eyes on TikTok’s throne

Uber/Lyft on a More Profitable Path

Autonomous Trucking's Long Haul 🚚

🗽 New York’s VC Scene is Changing

Goldman’s Latest Consumer-Lending Push

AI Used to Demand a Refund From a Retail Bank

Instagram Is Over

X launches account verification based on government ID

America's Greatest Workplaces For Women

SPACs are unstoppable

Apple announces its new A18 and A18 Pro chips

Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI’

Can only make you stronger..

Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules

Global Private Capital Market Expect To Climb 20%

X rival Mastodon has started selling toys

Character.AI introduces group chats

The rise of audio only 🔊

A Love Letter to Coffee Roasters ☕

All Eyes Are On Cybersecurity 👀

Who is hiring, all in one place

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

The Solopreneur Reaches Trucking 🚚

ByteDance is shutting down TikTok Music globally

Snapchat’s My AI goes rogue, posts to Stories

Retail Trends & What Glossier Got Right

Celsius Network and its former CEO sued by SEC, CFTC, FTC

Investor Highlight: Hustle Fund VC

Big Beauty vs. Indie Brands

The Race for On-Demand Groceries

Is generative AI reaching its peak?

Faire’s Challenge to Amazon

Reddit files to go public at last

Microsoft Will Spend $20BN on Advertising

The Booming Mindtech

The Far Away Vision of VR

Highlights of the Week (August 20, 2021)

Is the SPAC bubble bursting soon?

Telehealth Funding in 2020💊

Salesforce snatches up Zoomin

Behind AngelList’s $4.1BN Valuation

Flutterwave’s executive hires, product focus, and IPO plans

Elon Musk says Neuralink to begin human testing before year's end

Insurance Against Startup Failures

The Price of Pearly Whites 🦷

As TikTok ban heads to court, Lemon8 surges

The Scroll-Effect in Retail Shopping 🛍️

Everything you needed to know about OceanGate

Investor Highlight: BlackRock's ESG Investing

Advancing generative AI exploration safely and securely

Investing in Bulk: The Rise of the Wholesalers

Highlights of the Week (May 6, 2022)

The case against AI art

A Personal Note 📔

The Withering Crop of Vertical Farming Startups

Women Run 10% of Fortune 500 Companies for the 1st Time

Amazon cuts 5% of Audible division's workforce

Goldman CEO weighs in on SMBs & the Market

SVB Collapse Could Trigger More M&A

Highlights of the Week (May 28, 2021)

Can Loyalty Balance the Unit Economy?

Vaccination Rush 💉

Tech is Getting Boring and That's a Good Thing

Shaquille O’Neal talks investing in edtech

Substack expands further into social networking

SpaceX Launching Rocket Carrying Military Spacecraft

Fundraising in La La Land

OpenAI’s new Strawberry model may be smart, yet sluggish

The new reality of telehealth

Investors Are Hunting for Dragons

Supersize Me: Seed Round Edition 🍟

The Challenges of Crypto Regulation

Highlights of the Week (December 10, 2021)

Apple opens access to used iPhone components for repair

Communication using thought alone?

Reddit stock closes up nearly 48%

AI robotics’ ‘GPT moment’ is near

Does Recession Anxiety Cause Recessions?

Highlights of the Week (June 17, 2022)

Highlights of the Week (November 12, 2021)

Spotify adds comments to podcasts

So "Fast" It Failed

Highlights of the Week (July 1, 2022)

Another EV rising star

Reddit launches a suite of free growth tools for businesses

Retail bankruptcy and the companies that have benefited

Hangover-Free Refreshments

ClimateTech Startups' secret weapon - PBCs

HR Software Worth Billions

Grocery Delivery's Big Haul 🛒

Competing for Ideas: Seed Funding Highlight

VCs See Big Business In E-Commerce Returns

Highlights of the Week (Apr 16, 2021)

Epic Games CEO promises to ‘fight’ Apple over changes

Flexport’s Acquisition of an Amazon Exec 🚢

PE Fundraising Push Forces Investors to Make Tough Calls

Streaming Services vying for your attention

WordPress is now selling 100-year domains

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card

Niantic’s new game Peridot is Pokémon GO meets Tamagotchi

OpenAI unveils SearchGPT

Shaping up the people's vote

Social shopping and why it is trending 🛍

Investment Highlight: DAOs & Real Estate

Check Out PrivCo's 2023's Hottest Companies Recap 🔥

The Un-Silicon Valley Path to Unicorn Status

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses have ‘influencer’ written all over them

Is Silicon Valley's Golden Era Coming to an End?

Reddit at $5B seems eminently reasonable

Highlights of the Week (Mar 26, 2021)

Why Medium is opting out of AI

The Downward Year Of Global Tech Investment

Fintech in 2021

Highlights of the Week (October 15, 2021)

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

Grammarly lays off 230 employees

Making AI trustworthy: Can we overcome black-box hallucinations?

Highlights of the Week (July 15, 2022)

Tipping for content 💸

D2C Hiring Frenzy

Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain

Automation Takeover

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account

Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals

This Retail Channel Will Accelerate For Years to Come

The Best 100 Workplaces for Women

Industry Spotlight: Supply Chain Management ⛓️

Fintech's obsession with buy-now, pay-later

ChatGPT job losses for freelancers on Upwork and Fiverr

Everyone wants a cheaper phone plan!

Path Towards Public

Highlights of the Week (January 7, 2022)

Expect A Wave of Private Tech M&A in 2023

5 Startups Helping Manage Student Debt 🧑‍🎓

SPAC Forecast & Upcoming IPOs ☔ 💵

How to build a high margin restaurant

What is 2022 Telling Us So Far?

Q3 Outlook looks Cloudy for Fintech

Permira is taking Squarespace private in a $6.9 billion deal

Rippling Wants to be the Salesforce of Employee Data

OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

Deals: horizontal consolidatoins, and PEs on the sideline

The Opportunity in Livestream Shopping

Is Revenge Travel Coming? ✈

Highlights of the Week (Feb 12, 2021)

SpaceX’s Starlink ‘has achieved breakeven cash flow’

Meta adds its AI chatbot to the search bar across its apps

Women’s History Month Ends

Highlights of the Week (September 17, 2021)

Tesla shareholders sue Musk

The Business of Family Planning

Chip Designer Surprising NY Share Listing

The Future of Facebook

How Big is the Bubble?

Beating Google at Its Own Search Game.

Support for the AAPI Community 💪

Micromobility the French Way

Lawsuit against Snap over fentanyl deaths can proceed

Target and Shopify team up to expand marketplace

Ring in the Season! 🎁

The Rise of Renters

Discord and TuneIn partner to bring live radio to the social platform

Bing’s new ‘Deep Search’

The Climate Tech Cure for 'Doomism'

Will 2024 be the year of the autonomous vehicle?

Investment Highlight: Supply Chain Management

Put a Sensor Ring on It

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

Highlights of the Week (April 15, 2022)

Opera is releasing its redesigned browser on iOS

Anthropic releases Claude 2, its second-gen AI chatbot

VC-Backed Startups Raise 'Up Rounds in Name Only'

Tech is Fashion's Latest Accessory 🛍️

Housing Prices 📈 Affordability 📉

Apple's Global Power

Roller Coaster Of Financial Emotions

The Future of Medical Devices

Reddit is testing its own verification mark

Apple launches a new app for tracking sports

What happens to your crypto when you die?

Which industries are breaking through in 2022 🔥

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is gearing up for a comeback

The Beauty of a Slightly Different Approach

⬆⬆⬇⬇⬅➡⬅➡ Game On!

The Podcast Boom Is Fading

Choose Your Path to Going Public

2020—The Year of SPACs

Investor Highlight: Walden Catalyst and Deep-Tech 🕳️

Healthcare IT Startups Down Nearly 35% YoY

Highlights of the Week (June 10, 2022)

The Browser Company releases Arc for Windows

Highlights of the Week (Feb 19, 2021)

Kodiak Robotics is taking self-driving trucks off road

An Emission Free California

Saving money for a rainy day (or year) ☔

China overtakes Japan as biggest auto exporter

Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO

Highlights of the week (July 30, 2021)

Gray Skies ahead ☂ for SMBs

Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy

Discord is growing its developer monetization efforts

Digital Health 2022 Year In Review

OKRs and the Climate Crisis

Could Trump’s AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?

The Future of the Consumer Industry

Highlights of the Week (October 8, 2021)

Twitter Faces Lawsuit Over Unpaid Office Fees—Again

Highlights of the Week (February 18, 2022)

Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on X

Video Game Sector Sheds More Jobs

From Go Stores to Dash Carts

11/11 The Shopping Festival 💳

Spotify is launching a personalized in-app Merch Hub

The Age Of Social Media Is Ending

The Next Normal

Highlights of the Week (November 19, 2021)

Discovering Private Company Financial Data

Adobe is simplifying social content creation on mobile

Amazon upgrades its AI image generator

Check Out PrivCo's 2023's Hottest Companies Recap 🔥

Microsoft partners with Aptos blockchain

Generative AI and copyright law

The Future is No Code

Spending On Technology Is Resilient

🍸Cheers and Happy Holidays!

To Hire or Not to Hire

Highlights of the Week (July 16, 2021)

PE is Breathing New Life into this 90s Tech Darling

Plant-Based Seafood Charts A New Course

Xerox will axe thousands of jobs in its 'reinvention' plan

Facebook, Instagram and Threads were all down in outage

Freight startups' opportunity in the crisis

Esports league postponed after players hacked midgame

How solid is Softbank’s road to recovery?

TikTok is testing 15-minute uploads with select users

Top 100 Advertisers that Left Twitter.

Why Do You See So Many Bad Digital Ads?

Facebook plans to shut down its news tab

Databricks Ups the Ante on OpenAI With New Language Model

Startups Want to Help Airlines Avoid Another Tech Meltdown

Jet Founder Says it's Time to Disrupt The Food Industry

Waymo wants to chauffeur your kids

Have Tech Jobs Lost Their Luster?

The Rise of Sports Betting and Fantasy Gaming on College Campuses

Tech Startups in Women’s Healthcare

Here is what’s illegal under California’s 8 new AI laws

TikTok partners with AXS to sell tickets

Highlights of the Week (September 3, 2021)

Highlights of the Week (Mar 19, 2021)

Twitter changes its official handle to @X

How to Build a $40BN Business

Some Good News from Climate Tech 🌞

PrivCo 50 - Top Enterprise Software Companies of 2021 🏅

How Pfizer’s Acquisition Of Seagen Could Change the BioTech Industry?

OpenAI’s head of trust and safety steps down

The Most Powerful Women in Banking 2022

Investor Highlight: Big Name Investors' Crypto Craze

Investor Highlight: Serena Williams' Top Picks

Spotify cuts 17% jobs amid rising capital costs

Entering an Era of M&A Deals

OpenAI endorses Senate bills that could shape USA's AI policy

Top Performing Sports Analytics Companies

Shaking up the digital media world

What the Data Says About SPACs 📉

The Future of Work and the Workplace

Fitness Tech Winners 🥇

The Value of Community Investments for PE

Bluesky is now open for anyone to join

PropTech Thrives in 2021

Growth of Online Grocery Delivery

Goldman Eyes Big Payout From SVB Fallout

MLB All-Star Edition ⚾ 🌭

Musk unveils Robovan

Pride(full) Private Companies 🌈

Higher profits for health insurers

Recommerce thrives 💰

Meta reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU next month

X doubles down on video with a new TV app

Highlights of the Week (July 9, 2021)

Top Performing B Corps

Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators

The Next 1000 Unicorns 🦄

Highlights of the Week (August 6, 2021)

LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education

MSFT & OpenAI Are Creating a Bing-Powered Search

Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!

Web3 Q4 Numbers Are Off To a Rocky Start

Spotify offers Car Thing refunds

Ola cuts 180 jobs in profitability push

Messaging is the New Email

Wellness Startups 🌱 Spring 2021

The Next Gen of Mobile Homes

Goodbye 2020 - Q1 Edition

eBay debuts AI-powered tool to enhance product images

The Subscription Economy 📦

VCs Poured Over $41BN into Crypto...Now What?

Solar Ambitions ☀️

Future-Proofing with Fintech

It’s Taking Longer For Startups To Raise From Series A To Series B

Highlights of the Week (July 2nd, 2021)

Five US AgTech Startups to Watch 🌾

Spotify throws its hat in the edtech ring

Cybersecurity Funding Drops 58% From Q1 2022

The Top 1000 Private Companies! | PrivCo's Daily Stacks

Chaos over limited edition Stanley cups at Target

ChatGPT probably won't help create biological weapons, OpenAI says

Costco sold $100 million in gold bars last quarter

Highlights of the Week (May 14, 2021)

X changes creator payouts to depend on engagement

Home Shopping for the Next Gen

The Daily Stack - Via's drive to win!

Public-private efforts to help state and local government

ESG Investment Model is Broken

Meta discontinues Quest 2 and Quest Pro

The Future is Resale

Investment Highlight: D2C Underwear Brands 🩲

Tech Spending is Holding Steady, Even in a Downturn

The SPAC Rush of 2021

Highlights of the Week (Apr 2, 2021)

Reddit will start paying you real money for good posts

Highlights of the Week (June 18, 2021)

WhatsApp is launching its Channels feature globally

Why America Should Ban Crypto

Why is AI so bad at spelling?

ESG Investing & the Future of Wealth

HR Tech for the Global Workforce

$25BN Market for Cloud Communication

Generative AI spams up the web

Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation

How a Brewing Company made Moderation Cool

Highlights of the Week (December 31, 2021)

Cannabis Country 🌿

Music Festival Drive ins

Highlights of the Week (December 24, 2021) 🎄

Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever

The end of the American prep

Why Manufacturing Is Poised To Attract Gen-Z

The Secrets Behind Trader Joe's High Margin

Are SPACS heading for a slowdown?

Highlights of the Week (October 22, 2021)

Perplexity plans to share ad revenue with outlets cited by its AI

Highlights of the Week - (10/22/2020)

Apple gives new demos for Vision Pro

Investor Highlight: Moderne Ventures

Goodbye 2020 - The Summer Q3 Edition

Google Cloud rolls out new gen AI products for retailers

OpenAI gives board veto power on risky AI

D2C Grows Up 🛍️

VC Founder Blazes a Controversial Path in Defense Tech

Anthropic’s AI can now run and write code

Industry Highlight - The Titans of Seafood 🔱

Fast Growing AgTech Companies

OpenAI signs up its first higher education customer

The era of face-wearable computers

Snapchat’s parent lays off 10% of workforce

Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO

OpenSea cutting 50% of its staff

Fintech’s Credit Crunch

Building a Happier Mindset

Move over Amazon; headless commerce is taking over.

Air taxis are coming (and sooner than you think) 🚁

The Creative Divide

The Brewing Battle Between Epic & Apple

Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually

SeekOut lays off 30% of its workforce

Cameo announces more layoffs

Sharing Economy Goes Next Gen

The Golden Age of Streaming Is Over

Robinhood's Disappointing IPO Debut

Highlights of the Week (7/29/22)

Smart Homes vs. Pranksters

Airbnb's Billion Dollar Lien + Long Term Rental Exodus

Highlights of the Week (September 10, 2021)

Tech's Approach to be a Better Sleep

The 2022 Business Survival Guide

Aging in Place: A Look at the Eldercare Industry

Databricks launches LakeFlow for data pipelines

How to watch SpaceX launch Starship for a second time live

OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos

Blockchain tech could be the answer to uncovering deepfakes

Skilled Workers in the Gig Economy

Who Wants a Four-Day Work Week?

Capitalism and Humanitarianism Can Coexist

The Biomass Backers

Is it just me, or was that an earthquake?

Lucid Motors slashes 400 jobs ahead of crucial SUV launch

Viva La Plant Revolution!

Are there more runners during Covid19

Democracy isn't ready for its AI test

One strategic partner might hold the survival for Airbnb

The age of algorithmic anxiety

Highlights of the Week (April 22, 2022) 🌎

Investment Highlight: The Infrastructure Bill’s Opportunity for Startups

Investor Highlight: Obvious Ventures

Daily Stack - August 1, 2022

Pinterest touts Amazon partnership progress

Clear Vision 👓 and Top Valuations

Public Storage Rejects $11BN Bid

Relax & Recharge ⚡

Upcoming Tech IPOs

Many companies won’t say if they’ll comply with AI training transparency law

Is the Whiteboard Obsolete?

Billionaires Back Brain Implant Startup

Facebook says it paid content creators $2B this year

Why Startups May Soon Be Buying More Startups

Fintechs in Africa will surge 8X by 2025

Investment Highlight: International SPACs

How long until we’re all driving electric cars?

Highlights of the Week (October 1, 2021)

Investor Highlight: General Catalyst Partners

Roadside Motel Makeover

Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group

FlowGPT is the wild west of GenAI apps

The Cult of Ugly Footwear

From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk in Design Trends

Sceptical Investors Worrying About Gen AI's Returns

Snap shutters its enterprise services division

A SaaS revolution is coming for the 99%

Musk's Fixer Is Tending the World's Biggest Fortune

Surviving the Start-Up Funding Crisis

NASA is launching its own streaming service

E-Commerce Tech Firm Eyes IPO

Adobe brings Firefly’s generative AI to Photoshop

Autonomous Vehicle Spotlight 🚘

Highlights of the Week (December 3, 2021)

TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative

Reducing the cost of pharmaceuticals

How Do We Measure Impact?

Keys for Success in Small Brand Survival 🔑

Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups

Connected Fitness on the rise again

AI is going to ‘turbocharge winners’ faster than anyone is expecting

Women in the Workplace 2022

Tech is Feeling the Impact of a Slowing Economy

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video

Up and Coming Unicorns 🦄

You.com launches new APIs to connect LLMs to the web

Get ahead of the homeschooling efforts

Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?

Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?’

Delivery Apps & the Gig Economy

Generative AI can help with mundane tasks too

VanMoof, the e-bike startup, officially declared bankrupt

Google and DeepMind Make Mends To Battle OpenAI

Sports Performance Tech is 🔥 Up!

SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida

E-commerce is good, but is Recommerce better?

Celebrating Latinx-Founded Companies

Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map

Apple and Nvidia could be OpenAI’s next big investors

Investment Highlight: Real Estate Crowdfunding

The Tech Industry Is Having a Midlife Crisis

Conversational AI getting chatty

David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents

One strategic partner might hold the survival for Airbnb

Nintendo finally confirms the Switch 2 is on the way

Web3 Funding Continues To Crater

Apple is building a demand-side platform

Report Reveals Huge Gaps in FTX's Books

Investment Highlight: Are Public Companies Damaging Private Markets?

Web3 for Dummies

Matter can now transcribe your favorite podcasts

Flexible Arch of The Gig Economy

Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

A.I. for the better good

TikTok partners with Warner Bros

Consumer sector valuation plunges

State of Early Edtech

Google launches its upgraded Find My Device network

VCs joining the climate race should scare the daylights out of you

Big Tech's Big Lie

NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms goes into effect

Real Estate Investing Lite

Tesla says data breach impacting 75,000 employees was an insider job

Key to Reopening the Country

Shopify Ships Its Logistics Business To Flexport

Investor Highlight: Real Estate Investments & Zillow's iBuyer Failure

Starlink is booming, with traffic almost tripling this year

Protests reshaping our app usage

Live shopping in the age of content media

Serve Robotics is deploying their sidewalk delivery bots

New Payment Services Cuts Out Credit Card Fees

How Silicon Chips Rule the World

Microsoft lays off another 650 from gaming division

The Biggest Private Companies Engineering the Future

Subscription Startups on the Rise Again

Highlights of the Week (Mar 5, 2021)

Fintech for Kids

The List Of Big, Losing Startup Acquisitions Grows Longer

Should NFTs exist?

Investor Highlight: Y Combinator’s Green Wave

Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform

Funding News: Robotics 2022