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Startups / EU-Startups ·

Top 50: Women business angels shaping European Tech

Europe’s startup ecosystem is home to a growing community of women business angels who back promising founders, support early-stage innovation, and help shape the next generation of successful companies. Beyond providing capital, these investors bring valuable industry expertise, entrepreneurial…

Tech / The Verge ·

Camp Snap made a smaller kid-friendly version of its retro digital camcorder

After introducing new color options for its screen-free CS-8 video camera last month, Camp Snap announced a miniature version today that's less than half the size of the original. The new CS-8 Mini carries forward the retro design of the larger version that was inspired by Canon and Kodak Super…

Tech / The Verge ·

Sony’s retro headphones brought me back to my childhood in the best way

Many of my childhood summer afternoons were spent riding around my hometown on my Huffy bike or, in later years, taking the bus into Harvard Square to walk around and hang out at The Garage. My Sony Walkman was always in my jacket pocket, and a pair of headphones were always on my head. For […]

Tech / The Next Web ·

Roberta Metsola warns MEPs that AI cannot replace debate in EU lawmaking

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has warned MEPs against relying on AI to write laws, telling them that responsibility for every decision stays with elected members. She spoke on Wednesday at an event in the Parliament on how AI is used in its work, Politico Europe reported. According…

Tech / The Next Web ·

Online stores are using AI to run faster in the wrong direction

Generative AI is a game changer for e-commerce. Product photos, videos, social posts and entire ad campaigns used to take time, budget and a team. Now they can be made in minutes. For the price of a monthly subscription. At the same time, everything else is getting more expensive. Advertising…

Tech / The Next Web ·

Memrise founders raise $3.3M for Mindmax, an AI tutor for exams

Mindmax, a London start-up founded by the team behind the language app Memrise, has raised $3.3m (£2.5m) in pre-seed funding to build an AI tutor. The company announced the round today, and its first product is designed to help people pass professional exams and learn new skills for work. Concept…

Tech / The Verge ·

You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app

Instagram's standalone video editing app is now available on macOS, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram's Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge, "One of the things we're releasing with Edits Desktop is a…

Tech / The Verge ·

WhatsApp will let you invite friends to events who aren’t on the app

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows you to invite friends and family members to events in the app - even if they don't have the messenger installed. When you create an event in WhatsApp, you can share a link with a friend or family member without the app, and they can still […]

AI / The Verge ·

You can post AI music straight to SoundCloud from ElevenLabs

After partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to SoundCloud, you can publish them directly. As part of the…

AI / The Verge ·

The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boom

Today, I’m talking with Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book, Where Does My Stuff Come From? The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply Chains. Willy is one of my all-time favorite Decoder guests — his way of…

Tech / The Next Web ·

Microsoft reportedly rejects option to expand Nscale’s Texas AI deal

Microsoft has turned down an option to more than double the computing power it rents from Nscale at a data centre in Barstow, Texas, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.The extra capacity could have been worth tens of billions of dollars to the London-based AI cloud company, the FT said, citing…

Tech / The Next Web ·

OpenAI will be ready for an IPO in 2027, says Greg Brockman

OpenAI will be ready to go public in 2027, president Greg Brockman said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference in Napa, California, he also said that business customers now account for most of the company’s sales, Reuters reported. Brockman was asked on stage whether…

Tech / The Verge ·

Tech is about to get hammered in Congress

Tech CEO hearings. Tougher AI and data center guardrails. Investigations of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts. The gates are open for Democrats once they regain control of committee gavels come January after a historic win of majorities in both the House and Senate on Tuesday. "LAWYER UP," the top Democrat on…

Tech / The Verge ·

The X-70 is NASA’s next experimental X-plane

Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80 years ago, and the more recent X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator. The new X-70 Fractal is designed to be a "high-performance, highly…