When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough […]
Year: 2025
Announcing our 2025 VB Transform Innovation Showcase finalists
Seven companies will be sharing their latest AI innovations from the main stage at VB Transform in SF on June 25.
OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy
By offering transparent tooling and clear implementation examples, OpenAI is pushing agentic systems out of the lab and into everyday use.
YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts
YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Shorts creators can already take advantage of […]
Will long-lasting HIV preventive be a game changer—or a missed opportunity?
FDA’s approval of lenacapavir comes at a time when global health cuts could stall its rollout
Six-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
In Base44’s six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.
Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers
Adobe launched its own take on how smartphone cameras should work this week with Project Indigo, a new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines the computational photography techniques that engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz popularized […]
Israel-Iran Conflict Escalates: Airstrikes Persist; Iran Launches Hypersonic Missile in Tense Standoff – 6/18/2025, 6:28:42 PM
Major World News Updates as of June 18, 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict Intensifies – Israel and Iran have continued exchanging airstrikes for a sixth consecutive day, escalating tensions across the Middle…
A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber
A Threads glitch is making it look like everyone on your feed is saying the same thing.
No, Andreessen Horowitz didn’t post that crypto scam tweet
If it sounds too good to be true — like a VC giving away valuable assets — it isn’t true.