Nektar.ai exits stealth mode to plug CRM data leakages • TechCrunch

</p><p id="speakable-summary">A lot of important data gets lost along the sales pipeline because sales teams use multiple tools, including email, Zoom and WhatsApp, to talk with buyers. <a target="_blank" href="https://nektar.ai/"…

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PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden  • TechCrunch

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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

Proposed E.U. rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study. The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published…

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Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

</p><p id="speakable-summary"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tailor.tech/" rel="noopener">Tailor</a>, a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and <a target="_blank" href="https://globalbrains.com/en/"…

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

</p><p id="speakable-summary">Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine, to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name…

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Mode Designs’ Sonnet 65 feels almost too luxurious to type on

</p><p id="speakable-summary">I have yet to type on a keyboard that feels as good as <a target="_blank" href="https://modedesigns.com/pages/sonnet" rel="noopener">Mode Designs’ Sonnet</a>. There have definitely been a few days in the last…

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

</p><p id="speakable-summary">This February, Africa and emerging market-focused <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/nestcoin-raises-6-45m-pre-seed-to-accelerate-crypto-and-web3-adoption-in-africa-and-frontier-markets/" rel="noopener">Nestcoin</a> raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club…

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Inside Tencent’s ambition to create a Triple A console game

</p><p id="speakable-summary">Tencent, the biggest social networking and video games company in China, hasn’t really managed to scale its popular products in the Western mainstream. The behemoth’s international expansion for the…

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LG Electronics launches NFT platform that lets users buy and sell digital artwork

</p><p id="speakable-summary">LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lgartlab.com/" rel="noopener">LG Art Lab</a>, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s…

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