BUSINESS

Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it
- By Neclink.com
- . February 18, 2025
Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities.

These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models
- By Neclink.com
- . February 17, 2025
Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment called the

Apple Intelligence could arrive on Vision Pro in April
- By Neclink.com
- . February 16, 2025
Apple is planning to add Apple Intelligence to its Vision Pro headset in an update that could come as early as April, according to Bloomberg’s

Court filings show Meta paused efforts to license books for AI training
- By Neclink.com
- . February 15, 2025
New court filings in an AI copyright case against Meta add credence to earlier reports that the company “paused” discussions with book publishers on licensing

Turo scraps plans for an IPO
- By Neclink.com
- . February 14, 2025
Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, according to

Ulu Ventures sticks to its diversity strategy, raises $208M
- By Neclink.com
- . February 13, 2025
While large corporations like Google and Meta are curbing their DEI programs, Ulu Ventures, which just raised a fourth fund at $208 million, doesn’t plan

Federal workers sue Elon Musk and DOGE to cut off data access
- By Neclink.com
- . February 12, 2025
More than 100 current and former federal workers have sued Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency agency he runs for allegedly accessing highly

Zeta valued at $2B in new funding
- By Neclink.com
- . February 11, 2025
Zeta, a provider of banking software to banks and fintech startups, has raised $50 million from a strategic investor at a $2 billion valuation. The

DeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models
- By Neclink.com
- . February 10, 2025
The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such

Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook
- By Neclink.com
- . February 9, 2025
Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key