<p>When he was a senior studying at Texas A&amp;M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn&#8217;t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms, like Uber and Lyft.&nbsp; “Once [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and ElevenLabs have have reached lofty [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lee said it was analyzing whether sensitive or personal data was stolen in the cyberattack.</p>

<p>Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that we’ve been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech space off the back of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, late on Monday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, and unveiled new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s&nbsp;GPT-4o&nbsp;and Google’s&nbsp;Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk&#8217;s social network, X. Grok 3, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More than 10,000 protesters gathered in New York City on Presidents&#8217; Day to speak out against the current Trump administration and the actions in particular of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).&nbsp; It was one of several protests that took place Monday in major cities across the country and came during the same long [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in close proximity to your ears. But a BBC report suggests that a new health scare could be emerging around the noise-canceling feature that&#8217;s hugely popular in modern earphones. The article considers whether the technology could essentially be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in close proximity to your ears. But a BBC report suggests that a new health scare could be emerging around the noise-canceling feature that&#8217;s hugely popular in modern earphones. The article considers whether the technology could essentially be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The New York Times is now allowing its product and editorial teams to use AI tools, which might one day write social copy, SEO headlines, and code, reports Semafor.&nbsp; The news came to staff via an email, in which the publication announced the debut of its new internal AI summary tool called Echo. The New [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, is said to be in talks to raise $10 billion in a round that would value xAI at $75 billion. Bloomberg reported Friday that xAI is canvassing existing investors, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor Equity Partners for the round, which would bring xAI&#8217;s total raised to $22.4 billion, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that even when current events cloud the outlook, some startups still manage to raise significant amounts of funding, with those tied to security and [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>ICON, which builds homes using 3D printing, has closed on $56 million in Series C funding co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Tiger Global, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch exclusively. The raise represents a first close for the Austin-based ICON, according to a spokesperson. Existing backers CAZ Investments, LENX, Modern Ventures, Oakhouse Partners, Overmatch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Internal customer support platforms are moving from platforms like email ticketing systems and chat to channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and even Discord. But with Slack, for instance, able to host hundreds of channels, the whole thing can become quite unwieldy.&nbsp; Plain, out of the U.K., thinks it has the answer. Its API-first platform consolidates [&hellip;]</p>

<p>UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user interfaces. Regular communication, feedback, and testing are required for the collaboration to work smoothly and deliver a user experience that aligns with the intended design goals. Nick Budden, a serial entrepreneur who used [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When EJ Cho started his first company in 2018, he was exposed to what it takes to market a product. He was surprised to find a market filled with different single-use tools. &#8220;It was a very frustrating experience,&#8221; Cho told TechCrunch. &#8220;I had to learn and juggle all these different tools. It felt like a [&hellip;]</p>

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