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Month: November 2024
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour On Prediction Markets’ Big Night: ‘We Even Overtook Pornhub’
Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.
Truecaller founders step down as spam-blocker regains momentum
The co-founders of Swedish caller identification app Truecaller are stepping back from day-to-day operations, marking the end of an era for one of Sweden’s most successful consumer technology companies as it pushes towards a goal of 1 billion users. Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam, who […]
Introducing Narrative Command, the new VC thesis that helps explain the 2024 election
If we can agree on end goals, then we can debate how to get there while working on getting there. And so the best founders understand this.
Sega apparently has a new Virtua Fighter game in the works
Virtua Fighter may soon be punching its way back into the public eye. Justin Scarpone, Sega’s global head of transmedia, casually dropped the news about a new game in the franchise during an interview with VGC. “We have a suite of titles in development right […]
SambaNova and Hugging Face make AI chatbot deployment easier with one-click integration
SambaNova and Hugging Face launched a new integration today that lets developers deploy ChatGPT-like interfaces with a single button click, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes. For developers interested in trying the service, the process is relatively straightforward. First, visit SambaNova Cloud’s API website […]
Roblox details two new safety policies for protecting children
Roblox is implementing new safety policies intended to better protect the platform’s young users. We learned last month that changes were in the works for the game, and a post on the Roblox developer forum today detailed more about those rules. The big takeaway is […]
The other election night winner: Perplexity
On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time source of information during a high-stakes Presidential election: xAI and Perplexity. Elon Musk’s Grok failed almost instantly, offering wrong answers about races’ outcomes before the […]
The other election night winner: Perplexity
On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time source of information during a high-stakes Presidential election: xAI and Perplexity. Elon Musk’s Grok failed almost instantly, offering wrong answers about races’ outcomes before the […]
Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M
The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the last couple of years. The value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023, according to Dealroom data, with venture investment of €2.2 billion across […]

