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On Thursday, President Trump urged Republican lawmakers to end the tax credits on fateful benefits. Tax credits allow private equity and venture fund managers to deal with revenue from investments at lower capital gains rates rather than as normal income. Eliminating tax credits will be a major blow to the VC industry. “Cryled Interest drives smart, risky investments in innovative growth startups,” said Bobby Franklin, president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), in a statement. Trump ended a loophole in favor of interest when he campaigned for the president in 2016. However, when he took office in…

In response to pressure from rivals, including Chinese AI company Deepseek, Openai is changing the way its latest AI model, O3-Mini, communicates a step-by-step “thinking” process. Openai on Thursday announced an updated “Chain of Thought” showcasing how free and paid users of ChatGpt, an AI-powered Chatbot platform, have reached the model's “inference” steps and answers to questions It has been announced that it will be displayed. According to OpenAI, subscribers to the Premium ChatGPT plan that use O3-MINI with a “high inference” configuration will also see this updated read. “We're introducing an update [chain of thought] An Openai spokesperson told…

Tinder wants to reverse the continuous decline in active users by turning its eyes on AI. Over the coming quarter, match-owned dating apps will roll out new AI-powered features for discovery and matching. This additional purpose is to provide fatigued singles with an alternative to “swipe” that previously defined dating apps and influenced adopting gestures across the industry. In its fourth quarter revenue release, the company noted that the recommendations recommended by AI will provide a more “personalized and attractive match.” Match Group CFO Gary Swidler told investors that it offers “something other than swipe” as a way for users…

SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel and CEO of the California Community Foundation, Miguel Santana will focus on helping Altadena and Pacific Palisades residents rebuild on their own terms after last month's wildfires The program has been started. The California Community Foundation, SNAP, SPIEGEL, and SNAP CTO Bobby Murphy provide $10 million in funding to staff in a program called the Angels Department. “Our aim is to ensure that communities affected by Eton and Palisade's Megafire are ordering their own recovery,” reads a press release that announced the program. “The Angels Department is not a government or private sector initiative. It is…

To enhance subscription services and attract more paid users, Snapchat is rolling out additional features for Snapchat+ subscribers. It is a social media company and has also added the option to send self-destructive snaps. US Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send custom stickers that are generated for your message. To do this, start typing in the chat bar and select the sticker search button. Here we have AI-generated stickers containing text. It's worth noting that both Meta and Apple have launched similar features, so they are not the only companies that offer users the ability to create custom stickers…

The Philadelphia Eagles star, running through Saquon Berkley, will not only become an investor in the Fintech startup ramp, but also the star of the company's first Super Bowl commercial. Interestingly, it was Berkley who reached out to Lamp about investment. According to RAMP CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman, Barkley reached out after reading Peter Thiel's book, 1 from scratch. According to Glyman, Barkley chose the lamp after some investors' friends gave it to a “strong” recommendation. In a blog post posted on Lamp's website on February 6th, Barkley was quoted as: So I invested in the lamp. I saw…

Paragon Solutions, a startup that sells access to surveillance technologies, including phone spyware, has cut ties with the Italian government, according to reports from Guardian and Harletts. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, the Guardian first signed a deal with Italy on Friday after saying WhatsApp disrupts a hacking campaign that leverages spyware from an Israeli startup targeting around 90 people I reported it was stopped. Paragon ended its contract on Wednesday after the company determined that the Italian government had violated “the terms and ethical framework agreed under the Paragon contract,” according to the British newspaper. Israeli newspaper Haaretz…

The new Mac app that Rply launches today is designed to help Texters achieve “Inbox Zero” with iMessage. Targeting people who forget to reply and forget to deliver their friends for days, Rply uses AI to identify missed texts and respond to prevent unintentional ghosts I propose. AI Assistant can automatically respond to messages in your inbox for users who have not received replies for more than 24 hours. Rply is the brainchild of Molly Cantillon, a 21-year-old Stanford dropout who created Nox, a personalized AI assistant for iOS, supported by Openai's Startup Fund. “Rply was built to handle the…

Flashes, an Instagram alternative built on top of the Bluesky social network, is opening the door to beta testers. Announced a few weeks ago, the app offers people a way to leave the social networking empire of meta, offering more open alternatives, and is interested in using Bluesky's official app that works like X. Attract new users that didn't exist. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes runs on the same underlying protocol that enhances the AT protocol (or Atproto for short). As a Bluesky client, we support posting photos of up to 4 images and up to 1 minute…

Dating app giant Tinder updates its exploration page to allow users to access new categories, “non-unique daters”, “short-term fun”, “long-term partners” and “new friends” The company announced. Thursday. These new categories are designed to help users find compatible matches by grouping profiles according to the dating intent. The “serious dater” option focuses on users looking for a long-term relationship, while “new friends” appears to be Tinder's strategy to compete with Bumble BFF, which connects users to friendships. Released in 2021, The Explore Page organizes profiles into categories curated based on shared interests, such as “Binge Watchers,” “Coffee Date,” and “Nature…