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Partly Secures £38m and Takes AI for the Automotive Sector to the US. AI-Generated.
The funding round, led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Index Ventures and LocalGlobe, will accelerate Partly's expansion into the United States and further develop its AI-powered platform. The company, which was founded in New Zealand in 2021 and now has its headquarters in London, has developed the Interpreter AI model, which is designed to automate and streamline the identification of automotive parts for repair shops, insurers, and suppliers.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
Figma's Blurring The Line Between Design And Code And It's About Time. AI-Generated.
Figma added a bunch of features on Wednesday, and on the surface, they sound incremental: code layers, animation support, more AI tools. But they're actually addressing a real friction point that's existed for years, the awkward moment when a designer finishes something and has to hand it off to an engineer who has to reinterpret everything.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
The Disconnection
Introduction This has come about with the combination of two things. There was an old Seven Days In reshare that had just one read and one comment, and yesterday, my Google Pixel 6 died on me, getting stuck in an endless startup loop.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 months ago in 01
A Sticky Label With A Battery Could Actually Stop Cargo Theft Because Shipping's Been Basically Invisible For Years. AI-Generated.
So Guy Fieri's tequila company lost 24,000 bottles sometime in late 2024. Not like they misplaced them in a warehouse. They vanished. Completely gone. Worth a lot of money, and suddenly nobody had any idea where they went.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
Technical Due Diligence: What to Check Before Buying a Software Company
Buying a software company means buying a product, a codebase, an infrastructure setup, a data model, a delivery process, and a set of hidden operational habits. Some of that shows up during a product demo. Much of it surfaces only after close, when the buyer has to integrate systems, support customers, scale usage, pass security reviews, or replace the people who kept the system running from memory.
By Alex Natskovich3 months ago in 01
OpenAI Just Announced Its First Custom Chip And It's Really About Not Needing Nvidia Anymore. AI-Generated.
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño on Wednesday, its first custom-designed inference chip, built with Broadcom. It's not the flashiest announcement. A chip designed specifically for running pre-built AI models doesn't sound like the kind of thing that reshapes an industry.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
Slate Auto's $24,950 Electric Truck Is Cheap Because It Removed Everything You Didn't Ask For Anyway. AI-Generated.
Slate Auto just announced its electric truck starts at $24,950. That's before taxes, fees, destination charges, and all the other stuff dealerships add on. But even before those, it's half what the average American car costs.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
GTA VI Costs RM339 In Malaysia And There's No Escaping It Because There's No Physical Disc. AI-Generated.
Grand Theft Auto VI is coming on November 19, and it's going to cost you RM339 for the standard edition. RM419 if you want the Ultimate Edition with cosmetics, vehicles, and missions you're apparently supposed to care about.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
The Trump White House Called Anthropic's CEO a "Weirdo," So They Sent Someone Else to Negotiations. AI-Generated.
Dario Amodei didn't get fired. He's still the CEO of Anthropic. But somewhere between mid-April and mid-June 2026, the Trump administration decided they were done talking to him about the Claude Fable 5 and Mythos models that got suspended over national security concerns.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
Why 1,000+ Founders Are Gathering in Boston to Learn From Each Other Instead of Chasing VCs. AI-Generated.
The startup funding environment has shifted dramatically since 2021. Capital is tighter. Valuations are more realistic. The founder-friendly era of "move fast and break things" funding has given way to something harder: actually building sustainable businesses with real unit economics.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
Ribbie Turns Baseball Stats Into an 8-Bit Arcade Game You Can Actually Watch. AI-Generated.
There's a particular kind of gap in how we consume live sports data: the official channels exist mainly to deliver information as efficiently as possible. ESPN's Gamecast shows you what's happening in a baseball game with no unnecessary flourish. MLB's own Gameday app is functional, clean, and honestly kind of boring. The data is there, but the presentation feels like it's designed by committee to offend no one.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01
The Retro Tech Renaissance: Why We're Voluntarily Giving Up Our Smartphones. AI-Generated.
There's a particular kind of fatigue that comes with a phone designed to do everything. Endless notifications. Multiple open tabs. Infinite scroll that turns "I'll check something quick" into forty minutes of doomscrolling. The ability to do anything from anywhere has somehow translated into a baseline anxiety that you're not working, never not connected, never quite fully present.
By Mark Lim 3 months ago in 01