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Google is giving sheets a Gemini-driven upgrade designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. This update allows users to access Gemini features and generate insights from data such as correlations, trends, outliers and more. Users can also generate advanced visualizations such as heatmaps and allow them to insert them into cells in spreadsheets as static images. The company announced an update last month, but Google said Friday it was available to business users in all workspaces. To get started, you will need to click on the Gemini icon in the top right side…
Instagram Alternative Flashs released its Bluesky-based photo sharing app on the App Store this week, winning nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours. The app offers a classic Instagram-like experience, allowing users to upload up to four photos and videos for up to one minute. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes runs on the same underlying protocol that enhances the AT protocol (or Atproto for short). It is based on Bluesky, a social networking startup with more than 32 million users, so Flashes has access to a built-in audience. This means that all posts you create in the…
Welcome to Startups Weekly – Summary every week everything you need to miss from the startup world. Want to put it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Is hype good or bad? This week we've seen the startups on both sides of the fence. And being on the good side guaranteed a big funding round. The most interesting startup story of the week Image credit: Proxima Fusion As the week approaches the end, it's time to tally the pros and cons. Sparkle Points: Peer-reviewed journal highlights plans from German startup Proxima Fusion, lending new reliability to the concept…
The tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Large companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap, and Microsoft conducted sizable layoffs in 2024, while smaller-sized startups also experienced cuts, and in some cases, shut down operations altogether. We’re continuing to track the industry’s layoffs into 2025 so you can see the trajectory of the cutbacks. Later this year, we will break out our 2024 and 2025 lists in order to make the trends easier to parse. By…
We only have a few months until 2025, but this year we have already seen several data breaches affecting the personal information of millions of individuals, from student records to phone data and sensitive health information. Last year, in 2024, more than a billion records were stolen. If the first two months of this year go by, 2025 looks like an unprecedented year for data breaches. PowerSchool Violation Can Influence Tens of Million Students and Teachers The Ed-Tech big powercook violation is one of the biggest violations of student data in recent history. Although the number of stolen records is…
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Optifye.ai, a Y-combinator-backed startup, sparked a massive social media backlash this week after the demonstration went viral. The video shows how the company's AI-powered cameras can track factory workers in real time, and quickly set fire to it online as criticism is flooded with criticism over X and hacker news. In the clip, the supervisors spark a broader conversation about workplace surveillance, workers' rights, and the growing role of AI, sparking a broader conversation in the workplace, and the supervisors address them. Today, on TechCrunch's equity podcast, hosted by Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony HA, breaks the biggest story…
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