Some startup founders are criticizing Carta, a leading cap table management software provider, for making it difficult to cancel subscriptions. They allege that Carta requires a meeting with a customer success manager for cancellation and that scheduling these meetings is inconvenient.

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Refute, a London-based startup, helps companies detect and respond to disinformation. The company recently raised £2.3 million in funding to combat the growing threat of AI-generated misinformation targeting businesses.

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Zoox founder doubts Tesla's robotaxi plans, hires Tesla engineer Zheng Gao.

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Meta has released a tool called Meta Video Seal to watermark AI-generated video clips, aiming to combat the growing issue of deepfakes, which have increased by 4x worldwide from 2023 to 2024 and accounted for 7% of all fraud in 2024.

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Microsoft has announced Phi-4, a new generative AI model with improved math problem-solving capabilities, available in limited access on Azure AI Foundry for research purposes.

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Anthropic has released its new AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for its chatbot platform, Claude. It outperforms previous models on tasks like coding suggestions and content moderation.

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Twelve Labs is developing AI models that can analyze and understand videos, enabling powerful new applications such as video search, summarization, and question-answering.

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Swiss robotics company Anybotics secured an additional $60 million in funding, bringing its Series B round to $110 million. Anybotics develops autonomous inspection robots called Anymal, equipped with sensors and cameras to monitor industrial equipment for issues like thermal anomalies or gas leaks.

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Cartesia's AI, state space models, is a new, efficient model architecture that can handle large amounts of data at once, aiming to make AI cheaper.

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Upvest, a white-label investment platform used by major European fintech companies like N26 and Revolut, has secured a €100 million Series C funding round led by Hedosophia.

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