Author: Daniel Harrison

1.36b 1.1b 22.5b 3gfildes financialtimes AI will drive a new tech revolution, applying Moore’s law to everything; to rebalance the newly created wealth, society should favor taxing capital over labor  —  My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe. Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

singaporebased silent eight aipowered seriespillai the Singapore-based Silent Eight, whose AI-powered tech lets financial institutions enforce economic sanctions and prevent financial crimes, raises a $40M Series B  —  SILENT Eight, a startup specialising in AI for economic sanctions enforcement and financial crime prevention, has raised US$40 million in Series B funds. Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

big studios exceo decentraland Big Time Studios, started by ex-CEO of Decentraland, comes out of stealth with $21M to let game studios offer NFTs in their games  —  Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021?  Watch on-demand here!  —  Big Time Studios is going big this week with a funding round of $21 million to bring nonfungible tokens … Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

200 alphabet nytschiffer 1,200+ Alphabet employees have signed a letter asking the company to stop protecting harassers, following a NYT op-ed by an ex-employee who alleged harassment  —  Organizers say the demands of the Google Walkout still haven’t been met  —  More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed … Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

white safety board ntsb log4jvolz wall White House forms the Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled on NTSB, to investigate major national cybersecurity failures, starting with the Log4j bug  —  The new panel is loosely modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board and will look into the recently discovered Log4j internet bug Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

chinabased qa us zhihu hong thursday China-based Q&A service Zhihu closed down 23.6% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday after raising $106M; on Thursday the SEC said Zhihu could be delisted in the US  —  Question and answer website Zhihu Inc’s (2390.HK) shares ended down 23.6% on Friday in Hong Kong, making it one of the worst ever secondary listing debuts in the city. Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

ukbased api series general atlanticfaridi London-based Modulr, an API payments infrastructure provider that lets businesses automate and embed payments, raises a $108M Series C led by General Atlantic Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

syfe singaporebased 29.6m series valar ventures Vienna and Munich-based Meister, which makes workplace collaboration tools, raises $52M, its first funding since a 2008 angel round, and says it has 25M users  —  Vienna/Munich-based workplace collaboration tool platform Meister (a.k.a. MeisterLabs) has raised $52 million in a growth financing round. Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

syfe singaporebased 29.6m series valar ventures Apple announces a $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12 lineup, with a total capacity of 1460mAh, arriving July 19  —  Apple today released the MagSafe Battery Pack accessory for iPhone 12 models.  Many months after the iPhone 12 series was unveiled, Apple has quietly released … Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.

xometry us ipobeltran barrononline Shares of Xometry, a marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, closed up nearly 99% at $87.39 in trading debut, after raising $303.6M in its US IPO  —  Shares of Xometry, which is looking to digitize on-demand manufacturing, nearly doubled in the company’s market debut. Source Keep visiting mangamelon.ca for the latest news and updates.