When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology. The problem, he quickly learned, ran deeper than …

Whoop, the fitness and health tracking wearable company, has closed a $575 million Series G funding round at a $10. 1 billion valuation — nearly triple its last reported valuation of $3. 6 billion — in a deal that brings together sovereign wealth funds, major health institutions, and some of …

OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year. The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips, …

Users might not like bots in meetings visibly taking notes, but a lot of them don’t mind if an app on someone’s computer is doing the transcription. That’s the core reason behind Granola’s popularity, which helped it secure $125 million in Series C funding led by Danny Rimer at Index …

There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents, and meetings. All of them want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let you query all that data. …

Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools to keep their data private. Cloaked, the company that instead offers a bundle of security and privacy solutions, announced on Thursday that it has secured …

For more than a decade, Alphabet’s X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world’s most stubborn industries. It failed twice, but this time the industry itself is along for the ride. On Thursday, X said that Anori, its platform for streamlining the notoriously tangled process …

Over the past few years, there has been a steady influx of startups trying to treat issues like depression, period pain, PMS, anxiety, and insomnia by using wearables that apply electrical, magnetic, or ultrasonic signals to stimulate the brain. San Francisco-based Mave Health is the latest of that fleet, and …

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and product development to other businesses in …

The fashion industry knows it has a waste problem. About one garbage truck of textiles is thrown away every second. Meanwhile, the industry generates more carbon pollution than international flights and maritime shipping combined. Some companies are experimenting with new ways to recycle textile waste, while others are developing new …