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Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud Apr 07, 2025

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Cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud. While to some it may look like AI is headed in a similar direction, the founders of Parasail think AI infrastructure will look very different — and are betting their company’s fate on it.

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The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie Apr 04, 2025

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Rippling released the affidavit of the its employee who admitted he was spying for Deel.

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Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp Apr 04, 2025

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While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez noticed that most of the workers in the cafeteria were Hispanic. In conversations with them, a common theme kept coming up: how difficult it was for people who legally moved to the U.S. from Spanish-speaking countries.

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Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology Apr 03, 2025

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Skylight, a startup taking on TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just ten weeks of active development.

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Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model Apr 03, 2025

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AI startup Runway on Monday released what it claims is one of the highest-fidelity AI-powered video generators yet. Called Gen-4, the model is rolling out to the company’s individual and enterprise customers.

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Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service Apr 02, 2025

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Despite Google’s intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular photo backup services around. In fact, it was one of the most attractive offerings for years until it stopped offering unlimited storage in 2020.

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Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase Apr 02, 2025

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Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan application startup Frank that was purchased by JP Morgan for $175 million, was found guilty on Friday of defrauding the bank by greatly inflating the customer count.

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Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion Apr 01, 2025

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Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform to orchestrate the messy business of building and operating integrations and updates across disparate services and apps in the cloud. But the AI boom has come at the company fast.

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Why HoneyBook’s $140M in ARR may finally justify its $2.4B ZIRP-era valuation Apr 01, 2025

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HoneyBook, a startup last valued in late 2021 at $2.4 billion, told TechCrunch that it hit $140 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR). This makes HoneyBook one of the few startups with peak-VC-era valuations to report their financials after the market cooled.

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Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers Mar 31, 2025

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When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical concept than a reality. Today, the Paris-based is releasing an automation agent in partnership with Qonto, the fintech startup that offers business bank accounts to more than 500,000 customers across Europe.

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