Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad | Pitchbook
Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.Read More
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‘Dark woke’ is the internet’s answer to Trump-style politics
For now, it’s more gallows humor than any kind of serious organizing force. In the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president, a growing chorus of voices is calling on liberals to toughen up and tone down the moral high ground. If the left wants to claw back power, they argue, it’s time to…
Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors
Fusion power startups have long been stalked by one stubborn question: Will the technology work? But now, with net-positive fusion power no longer the stuff of science fiction, a fresh crop of startups have been founded on more mundane questions: Can reactors be built for less money? How can maintenance be made simpler? The answers…
Tesla signs lease deal for first showroom in India
Tesla’s Mumbai showroom will cover 4,003 square feet, making it its flagship location in India.
Utah is poised to pass an age verification law for app stores
Utah has once again passed that attempts to place new limits on children’s ability to access social media and other apps. The state legislature passed a bill that requires app store makers to verify the ages of users and get parental consent for the downloading of apps. Should the governor sign the bill into law,…
Our first look at Apple’s sky blue MacBook Air
Aside from a new color, the M4 MacBook Air looks a whole lot like last year’s model. And we’ve got the hands-on experience and pictures to prove it. Apple’s got five main updates for its refresh of the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs for 2025. First, it’s got a similar M4 chip to the base…
Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements
While DeepSeek-R1 operates with 671 billion parameters, QwQ-32B achieves comparable performance with a much smaller footprint.Read More
Utah just passed the country’s first age-verification bill for app stores. But the fight isn’t over
The App Store Accountability Act is headed to the governor’s desk, but a legal battle over the controversial bill seems all but certain. On Wednesday, Utah became the first state in the country to pass legislation mandating that app stores verify users’ ages and get parental consent for certain activity on minors’ accounts.
Tapbots teases a new Bluesky app, Phoenix, saying it can’t ‘survive on Mastodon alone’
There’s a new Bluesky app in the works from a popular developer of iOS applications. Tapbots, the company behind the popular Mastodon client Ivory, born out of its earlier efforts with Tweetbot (RIP), is readying a new app called Phoenix, designed for Bluesky’s growing social network of over 32 million users. In a post on…
Leap Finance secures $100m in debt facility from HSBC
To date, Leap Finance has provided over US$250 million in education loans to more than 5,000 students.