Credit Karma Net Worth is a new product from the same people who make credit monitoring services. It helps people find out how much money they have, grow it, and keep it safe. Credit Karma’s founder and CEO, Kenneth Lin, said in an interview that the new feature brings the …
Read More »Tweed is a crypto wallet API that can be added to any web service to give it a web3 feel
Meet Tweed, a startup that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. The company is coming out of stealth today. With Tweed, companies can make wallets for their users so they can buy, hold, send, and spend crypto assets without knowing how to do it. Accel …
Read More »Synctera gets $15 million to help companies in Canada launch banking products with embedded chips
A banking-as-a-service startup called Synctera has raised an extra $15 million to help it grow into Canada. The corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, NAventures, led the financing. This brings the total amount of money Synctera has raised to $60 million since it started in June 2020. The …
Read More »Reddit is getting rid of its copy of Clubhouse. Reddit Talk
When Clubhouse became very popular, every platform rushed to make a copy of it. But in the last year or so, the format has become less popular, and companies are rethinking what they should focus on. Reddit announced on Wednesday that its live audio service, Reddit Talk, will end on …
Read More »The startups of today should scare you
Rporters hear from a steady stream of new startups every day about their ideas, concepts, products, and services. Startups that say they can tell when an employee might want to leave for a new job, that think they can tell if someone is depressed by listening to their voice, that …
Read More »After creator backlash, YouTube loosened profanity and monetization rules
YouTube relaxed its controversial profanity rules today. The company claims the new rules created a “stricter approach” than intended. The new policy allows moderate and strong profanity without demonetization. The November policy flagged videos with profanity in the first 15 seconds and made them ineligible for monetization, meaning YouTube wouldn’t …
Read More »Indian fintech unicorn Slice buys bank stake
Analysts say Slice has a 5% stake in an Indian bank. North East Small Finance is a key step in the unicorn fintech startup’s journey amid mounting central bank challenges that have toppled many young firms. A regulatory filing showed that the Bengaluru startup paid $3.42 million for the 5% …
Read More »Worldcoin, cofounded by Sam Altman, bets AI’s next big thing is proving you’re human
Fake online identities are common. The ability to easily create them has been a boon for social media platforms—more “users”—and a scourge, as they spread conspiracy theories, distorted discourse, and other social ills. ChatGPT shows that Twitter bots are nothing compared to what’s coming. In a few years, it will …
Read More »DuckDuckGo tests AI search
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, launched DuckAssist, an AI-powered summarization feature, in beta today. DuckAssist can directly answer simple search queries. DDG says it uses ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Anthropic, an AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI employees, to power its natural language summarization capability, along with its own active indexing …
Read More »Google I/O returns to Mountain View May 10
Google announced that I/O will return to Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater on May 10. The company will stream the keynotes for free, but the in-person event will be small, like last year’s. Pre-pandemic I/O was a multi-day event with keynotes and workshops. This scaled-down event appears to focus on public-facing …
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