🧮 AI accounting: Accounting is a tedious job that could benefit from automation. Numeric launched in 2020 to do just that. Now it's added in generative AI capabilities and has just raised its second funding round in five months. Read more
❓ Is that good? LinkedIn launched a freelancer marketplace in 2021. The company now says that 10 million people have created pages on the platform. But it won't share how many jobs have been booked, so it's unclear how well it's actually going. Read more
🔐 The battle for data privacy: A multi-year challenge by Germany's antitrust authority aimed at Meta ended today. Meta dropped its appeal and has agreed to a number of new updates meant to change how it interacts with user data. Read more
🦾 Browser commands: Opera is introducing new AI capabilities to its browser that allow users to type out a command, like bookmarking a tab, and it will do it for them. As someone who is incapable of closing tabs for some reason, I would love for someone to do it for me. Read more
🍹 Blurred idea: Social app Swsh is now a photo-sharing app. The company thinks it will stand out in the crowded category by having Gen Z features like the ability to blur alcohol out of an underaged user's photo, which is the wildest thing I've heard a startup say all week. Read more
👦 Combining forces: Today the U.S. and U.K. announced that they will set up a joint children's online safety working group to address some of the data and privacy issues affecting children online. Read more
📈 What's an exit? Startup exits have been few and far between for the last few years. PitchBook's Q3 data shows that the number of companies waiting to exit isn't just high, it's record-setting high. Read more
