It’s 2021 for AI while the rest of the startup market is stuck in 2024

Equity

English - January 22, 2024 15:00 - 10 minutes - 9.94 MB - ★★★★ - 321 ratings
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The Q4 2023 earnings cycle will kick off this week with names like Intel and Visa reporting results. The largest tech companies will start to report next week.Crypto is not enjoying a post-ETF boom for reasons that are yet to be nailed down. Then again, when have crypto price movements ever made complete sense?ElevenLabs is the newest AI unicorn. With $80 million in fresh capital, the synthetic voice startup now has oodles of cash to try and run its market.Canva is big! Who knew?Elsewhere, Crunchbase News reports that cybersecurity fundraising fell again last year. Given the number of breaches in the market, that feels off, yeah?Developers and Apple Vision Pro are not seeing eye to eye. Perhaps Apple should work to rectify its developer relationships?And in closing, it turns out you can slow down TikTok.

That's all for this morning, and we'll be back on Wednesday. Talk soon!

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