<p>Okteto, a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with existing investors Haystack, Root Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures also [&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>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>

<p>Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X.  That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human. &#8220;Please apply only if you are an AI agent, or if you created an AI agent that can fill this job,” the job posting read.  The seven-person [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X.  That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human. &#8220;Please apply only if you are an AI agent, or if you created an AI agent that can fill this job,” the job posting read.  The seven-person [&hellip;]</p>

<p>LG Electronics is betting on robotics as its next big growth driver. The South Korean electronics company said on Friday that it has agreed to acquire an additional 30% stake in Bear Robotics, a California-based startup it previously backed that is building AI-powered server robots for restaurants. The deal gives LG a majority ownership of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After releasing two developer beta versions last year, Google introduced the first public beta for Android 16 on Thursday. New features include live updates on the lock screen (like Live Activities on iOS), Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec for high-quality video recording, and a framework for developers to make their apps adaptable for different screen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network X has grown its in-app revenue over the past year, despite a decline in active users, new data shows. Global consumer spending in the X mobile app across both iOS and Android has climbed by 76.3% year-over-year, when comparing two similar periods in January, according to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures. However, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf. Now, we&#8217;re seeing OpenAI&#8217;s first real attempt. OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is launching a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It can be challenging for developers of fintech apps to integrate repayment, balance transfer, and bill pay functionality. Devs often have to deal with a patchwork of brittle screen-scraping APIs to extract data from users&#8217; financial institutions — or worse, tools to process mounds of physical checks and paperwork. Three friends and entrepreneurs — Jose [&hellip;]</p>