A popular plagiarism checker has pulled a big about-face on AI for students
Turnitin is planning to launch an online program that lets students write with AI under teacher supervision. Plagiarism checker…
Venture capital’s hopes of a 2025 resurgence have all but ‘dimmed.’ Blame the whipsawing stock market.
The venture capital ecosystem is still reeling from President Donald Trump’s unleashing of global tariffs, which sent shockwaves through…
It’s ‘really hard’ to be a public company right now, a senior fund manager says
Public companies have to contend with shareholders with different interests to their own, Peter Singlehurst said. Companies should stay…
Patient advocate startup Solace is set to be valued at over $300 million in new funding round from Menlo Ventures
Buzzy healthcare startup Solace just raised a fresh round of funding led by VC firm Menlo Ventures, B-17 has…
Don’t get too excited about AI agents yet. They make a lot of mistakes.
AI agents are all the rage. But they can make mistakes that compound the more you use them. Silicon…
ICE just ordered $30 million worth of new technology from Palantir to track immigrants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has signed a $30 million deal with Palantir for software add-ons to track self-deportations and…
This is Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of why Facebook is losing cultural relevancy
Mark Zuckerberg has been worried about Facebook’s cultural relevance for years. Emails from April 2022 between Zuckerberg and Tom…
LinkedIn’s COO tells B-17 he leans on AI in 3 ways for work
Dan Shapero, LinkedIn’s chief operating officer, said he uses AI in three ways. As LinkedIn rolls out artificial intelligence…
Microsoft forms new AI group under former Facebook head of engineering Jay Parikh
Jay Parikh. Microsoft created a new engineering organization responsible for building its artificial-intelligence platform and tools, CEO Satya Nadella…
The career move Cloudflare’s CEO wishes he had made out of college
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said he turned down offers from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Netscape when he graduated from college….