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Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation — Artificial intelligence startup Maxima has raised about $41 million from investors including Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins …
When You Give a Bully Your Lunch Money
President Donald Trump, today in the Oval Office alongside his “very good friend” Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, after ABC News reporter Mary Bruce had the temerity to pose a question regarding Mohammed having ordered the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018:
People are wise to your hoax. ABC, your company, your crappy company, is one of the perpetrators. And I’ll tell you something, I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake, and it’s so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should look at that.
Also from Trump, regarding Khashoggi’s murder:
A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.
Things happen, indeed.
Disney (ABC’s owner), a year ago settled a lawsuit Trump filed against ABC News — a lawsuit most experts agreed ABC would have won — for $16 million, in what clearly amounted to a bribe.
Yours truly, last month, in a post on Apple’s capitulation to Trump regarding the ICEBlock app for iOS:
When you give a bully your lunch money, they always come back for more.
I think Bob Iger gets that now. “Fuck you, make me” remains the correct response to these threats.
The world wasn't ready for Kirby Air Ride in 2003
Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft wanting PCs to "understand you", the feature delivers inconsistent results and often slow, incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft wanting PCs to “understand you”, the feature delivers inconsistent results and often slow, incorrect responses — It's not hard to understand the AI future Microsoft is betting billions on — a world where computers understand what you're saying and do things for you.