Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is planning a lawsuit against crypto exchange Coinbase, alleging the company is selling unregistered securities to residents of the US state, after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) dropped its federal case against the exchange.
The leadership changes are the first major move under Tan, who took the top job last month, to turn around the venerable Silicon Valley chipmaker after years of problems. Intel’s data center and AI chip group, as well as its personal-computer chip group, will report directly to him.
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If you’re a designer who’d like to give in-browser mockups a try in your own work, this article could be your starting point.
A pair of Portland tech vets landed $1 million from investors for their tool that allows consumers and creators to control their content feeds on social media app Bluesky.
A scrape over who will control a once high-flying Oregon public company has escalated into a good old-fashioned Wall Street duel. The target is vacation rental management company Vacasa, which has posted disappointing results for the past several quarters. The company’s shareholders will vote on a board-backed acquisition on April 29.
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity.
In all, global venture funding in Q1 clocked in at $113 billion — the strongest quarter since Q2 2022 — but a staggering one-third of the total was thanks to a single round: OpenAI’s $40 billion raise. The new funding, which marks the largest-ever investment in a private company, pinned a $300 billion valuation on OpenAI, making it the second most valuable private startup in the world, behind only SpaceX, which was founded 13 years earlier.
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On the program is mostly arguing about what constitutes data science and bemoaning cloud computing platforms. It’s a good time and I’m looking forward to seeing both regulars and new faces.
Join us for our 11th event, and our first Community Night, hosted by Crowd Supply! For this event, we’re inviting members to share a project, demo a prototype, or present an idea in a casual 3-5 minute slot. This is a great opportunity to showcase something you’ve been working on—whether it’s a hardware hack, a new product, or an experiment you’d like feedback on. The only requirement? It should be something you haven’t shared with the group before!
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