Proptech startup Smart Bricks raises $5 million pre-seed led by a16z For much of his career, Mohamed Mohamed worked at institutions — BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey — all of whom, he said, “treated real estate as a computational problem.” “They had proprietary data pipelines, internal valuation models, simulation tools, and increasingly, early AI systems supporting underwriting and...

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs Anthropic and OpenAI may be rivals, but their presidents Daniela Amodei and Gregory Brockman have one thing in common: they are both Stripe alumni. With former employees who went on to create dozens of startups, the fintech company has become one of the most prolific “founder factories” — and the money is following....

Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely.   Yet, despite how sensitive this personal data...

Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. As first reported by CNBC, as of Saturday afternoon, Claude is currently ranked number two among free apps in Apple’s US App Store — the number one app is OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and number...

War with Iran strands hundreds of thousands of travelers across the Middle East War with Iran strands hundreds of thousands of travelers across the Middle East Audio will be available later today. Hundreds of thousands of travelers have been stranded by the outbreak of war with Iran.