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Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi’s father was blind from congenital glaucoma at age four. Due to this, his father was active with the Iranian Blind Foundation. Vaghefi says most of his childhood pals were blind or had blind parents. Vaghefi considered becoming a physician to aid people like his …

OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot, ChatGPT, has gone viral. Over 92% of Fortune 500 companies use a behemoth tool to increase productivity by writing essays and coding with brief text prompts for more general uses. Although ChatGPT has a negative aspect, AI tools are here to stay. ChatGPT boasts 100 million weekly …

Several internet investors have backed a new firm that uses open source projects and knowledge management to target the lucrative office productivity market. Famous founders Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Steve Chen (YouTube), Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub), Bob Young (Red Hat), and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera) have invested $6.4 million in AppFlowy. OSS Capital …

Tinder is improving its profile pages to provide more information and spark conversations. Profile quizzes, discussion starters, basic info tags, and dark mode are new features. Examine these new features in depth. The Match-group-owned app is adding profile prompts for questions like “The key to my heart is,” “The first …

Virgin Pulse’s healthcare platform, Welltok’s file transfer tool, was hacked to steal over a million people’s personal data. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with healthcare plans to communicate with subscribers, informed Maine’s attorney general last week that hackers stole more than 1.6 million people’s sensitive data. Welltok …

After three days of deliberation following Altman’s unexpected firing by OpenAI’s board, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on Monday that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman will lead a “new advanced AI research team.” Brockman was among the many OpenAI employees to resign in protest last week. Nadella has appointed …

Industry executives said India’s central bank has slowed consumer credit growth, hurting consumer spending and South Asian startups. The RBI increased risk weights on bank and NBFC unsecured personal loans, credit cards, and consumer durable loans by 25% to 125%. The RBI said the new measures exclude mortgages, auto, education, …

The father of Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi was blind at four from congenital glaucoma. Thus, his father joined the Iranian Blind Foundation. VAGHEFI says most of his childhood friends were blind or had blind parents. Vahefi considered becoming a clinician to help people like his father, but he …

According to a regulatory filing, cybersecurity startup-focused venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures is seeking $300 million for a new fund. Over a year after launching its first fund in May 2022, a San Francisco VC firm filed with the SEC on Wednesday to raise $300 million for its second fund. …

Apple announced Thursday that it will add RCS support to iOS next year, resolving the widespread issue of text messaging compatibility between iPhones and Android smartphones but not eliminating the “green bubble” dread. Critics have long argued that Apple’s refusal to support RCS has fragmented messaging ecosystems, particularly for Android …