You won’t need a second phone for this new WhatsApp feature

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By Christine Hall Thursday, October 19, 2023

The multitaskers in the group will really enjoy today's top story. WhatsApp will now let users log into two accounts simultaneously. Before, you had to carry two phones if you wanted to have two accounts. Let the switching begin. Meanwhile, we've got a gaggle of Google news again. Your favorite was that Google announced plans to manufacture Pixel smartphones in India and will begin to ship those products next year. There are some additional India initiatives, including metro ticket booking, consumer and merchant lending offerings and enhanced search around government welfare schemes. And Netflix had strong subscriber growth during the third quarter, so what's your prize? Increased prices. That's right, Netflix is going to raise the price of some of its plans in select markets. View the plans. Image Credits: Chesnot/Getty Images / Getty Images

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More top reads Like a warm hug, only with sales: Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales. Let's shake on it. Layoff update: Earlier this month, product discovery site Product Hunt announced some layoffs but didn't get specific at the time. Now we know more. And you can too. Linking up: Instagram co-founders' app Artifact now lets you discover recommended places. Get sharing. Can you pay my bills?: Citi inks deal with fintech Navan, a deal so good it has Citi’s managing director saying, "Not having to file an expense report is like nirvana." Ommmm. Catch and release: Catch, offering health insurance for gig workers and self-employed individuals, relaunches with new owners. Meet them. This will make you not want to answer: Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts. It all starts with adding a contact and answering a call. Find out why this isn't a new thing. Group work: Sidebar thinks the key to career development is small peer groups. Investors agreed and gave them $13.55 million in new funding to further prove out that theory. Read more. Twitter is dead: Haje writes that "founders love giving top-down takes." However, he notes that with X, Musk is playing the bottoms-up game. (TC+) Not again: Early-stage founders are optimistic about raising again — but not all of them. Find out why. (TC+) Alert!: Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to compromise tens of thousands of Cisco devices. Get the scoop. Going to court: The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit against Gemini, Genesis and DCG, claiming they defrauded crypto investors of over $1 billion. Here's how that came to be. New level unlocked: Or rather locked up, as was RagnarLocker's ransomware dark website. A group of international law enforcement agencies seized it during a sting operation. Read more. Don't dump those clothes, sell them: Uruguay clothing resale marketplace developer Vopero now has $4 million in additional capital to expand in Latin America. Try it on for size. Even more for your Thursday: Q3 data for women is just more of the same Pebble's $100K+ EV travel trailer can live off the grid for 7 days Threads' latest growth hack is showing posts on Facebook After X, Meta and TikTok get EU request for info on response to Israel-Hamas war Trans healthcare startup Plume lays off dozens of workers Image Credits: Visual Generation / Getty Images

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ChatGPT officially gets the web search treatment

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By Christine Hall Wednesday, October 18, 2023

In today's top story, OpenAI formally brings web search to ChatGPT. You remember ChatGPT, right? It's only that thing we talk about every day, lol. Also, DALL-E 3 integration arrives in beta. Get the scoop. Meanwhile, Foxconn and Nvidia came together to build "AI factories" to accelerate self-driving cars. Learn how that's going to work. More Nvidia news below. And just when you thought it was safe to check your genetics again, a hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on a cybercrime forum. Read more. Image Credits: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP / Getty Images

More top reads Well, blow me down: Whisper Aero unveils an ultra-quiet electric leaf blower powered by aerospace tech. Check it out. It's a bird, it's a plane? No, it's your medication: College Station, Texas, is the first location for Amazon Pharmacy's drone deliveries. Wait, there’s more. And drone deliveries are scheduled to land in the U.K. and Italy next year. Meanwhile, Amazon and MIT are partnering to study how robots impact jobs. No chips for you: Biden further chokes off China's AI chip supply with Nvidia bans. Meanwhile, the company brings generative AI compatibility to robotics platforms. The circumference of a circle divided by two times pie: Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era. Find out what it does. Hacked: Russia- and China-backed hackers are exploiting the WinRAR zero-day bug. The vulnerability was patched, but there's still a flaw. Anything anywhere all at once: Anyplace, a startup aimed at giving "digital nomads" a comfortable place to work, nearly doubles its valuation. Find out how a pivot helped. Searching: Objective emerges from stealth to deliver multimodal search to developers as an API platform. Read more. For the love of money: Flanks grabs additional capital to automate wealth services in Europe so financial advisers get a full picture of their clients’ portfolio. Here's how. Speaking of wealth management: Peak XV invests $35 million into wealth and asset management startup Neo to offer financial advice to high net worth individuals in India. Read more. Circle gets the Square: Square's new AI features include a website and restaurant menu generator. See all 10 of them. David vs. Goliath: First, meet two open source challengers to OpenAI's "multimodal" GPT-4V. Then read what five investors had to say about the pros and cons of open source AI business models. (TC+) It's gone Plaid!: Fintech startup Plaid taps a former Expedia executive as its new chief financial officer. Though the company says it doesn't have plans for an IPO "at this time," it's time to all hail the (eventual) Plaid IPO. (TC+) Even more for your Wednesday: Was Loom's $975M exit a fair price? (TC+) FTX misused customer funds, accounting expert who assisted in Enron prosecution testifies Exclusive: KKR just closed its third tech growth fund with roughly $3 billion, $400 million of which came from KKR New York VC firms form alliance to back diversity Latin America's Q3 2023 venture results show glimmers of light (TC+) Meet Alliance DAO's latest accelerator cohort of startups building in crypto winter (TC+) Chrome's search bar now has smarter autocomplete, automatic typo fixes and more Image Credits: Whisper Aero

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