WhatsApp lets you pin up to three messages in a chat, Intuitive Machines' second moon mission on track for 2024

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WhatsApp now lets you pin up to three messages in a chat. - Link

Intuitive Machines’ second moon mission on track for 2024. - Link

World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow on and back hardware. - Link

MediaTek introduced Dimensity Auto Cockpit, its automotive-focused SoCs, this week, becoming the first third-party company to use Nvidia's GPU IP in its chips. - Link

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Butternut AI is an AI-powered website builder that creates multi-page websites from a prompt. - Link

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This Week in Startups

E1918: Microsoft has acquired Inflection AI and integrated technologies from other companies like Suno and Cohere, marking a significant move in consolidating AI technologies and potentially avoiding regulatory scrutiny usually associated with mergers and acquisitions. The episode also covers Apple's acquisitions in AI, Suno's new model capabilities including song production, and discussions on fair use of internet-scraped data. - Watch

E1917: Jamie Rhode from Screendoor discusses optimizing early-stage fund structures, the significance of GP market fit, and strategies for effective portfolio construction. She also covers the unique aspects of seed-stage investing, Screendoor's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the characteristics of high-performing general partners. - Watch

E1916: Arvind Jain from Glean talks about improving work productivity with AI, focusing on privacy and competing with existing tools. He also discusses the effects of AI on businesses and the future of AI development. - Watch

E1915: Sunny and Jason discuss AI and robotics, specifically Cognition’s Devin and the Figure AI robot. They speculate on the future of AI in everyday life, including the integration of AI features into iPhones.- Watch

E1914: Raja Doddala explores evolving trends in early-stage investment values and strategies and discusses the future of venture capital, emphasizing the importance of liquidity and portfolio construction. - Watch

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