Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%
many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : When billion-dollar ...
A look at the implosion of CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization startup whose ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is accused of swindling investors out of $300M
CaaStle pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in recent tech history, according to the SEC and DOJ. X: @bernardmoon . LinkedIn: Jill R. Shah , Kim Bhasin , Jack Newsham , Matt Townsend , and ...
Google launches Gemini 1.5 for developers and enterprise users, with a context window of up to 1M tokens, and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with Gemini Ultra
but you won't be able to enjoy it just yet Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide : I test AI for a living and Google's Gemini Pro 1.5 is a true turning point Shaurya Tomer / Hindustan Times : Google DeepMind an...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo's refund-without-return policy
helping them fight back against the platform's unfair refund policies through legal action Great reporting by @violazhouyi: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Merchants are fed up with the pol...
Sources: online fast fashion retailer Shein is in talks to raise up to $3B from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and others at a $64B valuation, down from its $100B peak
Chinese fast-fashion retailer looking to raise up to $3bn at a vastly reduced valuation in response to tech downturn Tweets: @tabby_kinder Tweets: Tabby Kinder / @tabby_kinder : Shein is in talks to r...
As COVID surges in India, online crowdsourcing and social media have become essential for sharing critical public health information, like ICU bed availability
With little state resources, citizen-led online initiatives are helping people find everything from oxygen to ICU beds. Tweets: @lmatsakis , @restofworld , @nilchristopher , @_meher , @restofworld , @...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....
Netdata, makers of an open-source computer hardware monitoring tool, raises $17M Series A led by Bain Capital, bringing total raised to $20.5M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @panosjee , @ron_miller , and @chuhnk Tweets: Panos Papadopoulos / @panosjee : Super excited to finally announced our biggest investment to date. ✅ Great founder @C...
As China exports its surveillance tech to the world, a look at its use in Ecuador, where 4,300 cameras feed video to 16 monitoring stations employing ~3K people
In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence. Tweets: @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @m...