ChatGPT for Mac: If you have a Macbook and a penchant for typing "chatgpt…" in your web browser, now you don't need to get Chrome involved anymore. OpenAI has released a ChatGPT app for macOS, which you can summon by just pressing Option + Space once installed. Read More
GM's Cruise gets a new CEO: The robotaxi company's CEO Kyle Vogt stepped down last year after a safety incident that resulted in Cruise grounding its entire U.S. fleet. Cruise has finally found a new CEO in Marc Whitten, a video game industry veteran who was a founding engineer at Xbox and CTO at Unity. Whitten also brings experience at Amazon and Sonos to the table. Read More
The 10 most exciting digital health startups: Healthtech isn't as hot as it was during the COVID-19 pandemic, but I think it'll make a comeback, especially with the advent of genAI. We spoke to a dozen healthcare VCs about which startups have the most promising future. Read More
Microsoft AI's CEO ♥️ Sam Altman: During an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Mustafa Suleyman (who founded AI pioneer DeepMind) made it very clear that he admires OpenAI's CEO, and trusts him with AI safety. And he would say that, wouldn't he? Microsoft has a huge stake in OpenAI's for-profit business, despite technically being a competitor. Read More
DTCP raises $450M for early stage European startups: The fund, Incharge Capital, is a joint venture with Porsche that will focus on mobility startups, and is backed by Softbank and Deutsche Telekom. DTCP had originally been targeting $500 million, but the firm "went through a very complicated market environment for fundraising." Read More
From mortgaging their home to raising $18M: Founders, what would you do to bootstrap your startup? The founders over at Climate X, which assesses the climate risk of physical assets, re-mortgaged their house while struggling to raise venture capital so they could pay their staff. Pale Blue Dot eventually helped them out, and now Climate X assesses risk for financial services clients with over $6.5 trillion in combined assets under management. Talk about a comeback story. Read More
iPhone users can now send gifs to Android users: Apple has added support for RCS (Rich Communication Services) to its Messages app as part of the latest iOS 18 developer beta. RCS lets you send and receive files and high-quality images, see typing indicators, get read receipts and more, which iPhone users previously could only do with each other. Now, they can text and share files with Android users, too. Read More
Let old people age in their own homes: Older adults don't want to go to nursing facilities, so there's plenty of work for at-home care agencies. But such agencies usually only help out the elderly during the day, and only for a few hours at a time. Sensi.AI has just raised $31 million to help agencies virtually monitor the well-being of their elderly clients around the clock. It's a great idea, but I hope the startup's privacy and security measures are up to snuff. Read More
Opera adds AI-powered image generation: Opera's latest beta of its browser, Opera One, brings a host of new features, including AI capabilities like image and voice generation and a page context mode that lets users ask an AI assistant questions about a webpage. There are also new multimedia controls as well as the capability to split tabs so you can work on two web pages at the same time. Read More
