Comic Strip of The Week

AI BITES

1. Forget fortune cookies, AI now predicts your (maybe) doom: Fake AI death calculator spooks the internet

2. Bueckers Breaks Silence: Slams AI Fakery After Sisterhood Support

3. OpenAI's GPT-2 Chatbot Emerges: Secret Weapon or Leaked Future?

4. Adios Ad-Block? Microsoft's Copilot Takes Flight for All Advertisers

5. Rabbit Hops Back: R1 More Than Just a Fancy Android App (They Say)

6. Microsoft Malaysia Gets Massive Makeover: $2.2 Billion Boosts AI and Cloud

7. Tech Titan Talks to Himself (AI Version): Creepy or the Future?

8. Meta Makes Matchmakers Miserable: "AI Girlfriend" Ads Scrubbed from Facebook, Instagram

9. Airbnb Assembles for Groups: New Booking Tools and AI Service on the Horizon

10. Anthropic's Claude Goes Mobile: iPhone App and Biz Tier Challenge ChatGPT

11. AI Ambassador Arrives: Ukraine Debuts Virtual Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

12. Minimum Wage Blues? Fast Food Chains Turn to AI for Relief (and Maybe Fries)

13. Poof! Powerful AI Makes Surprise Entrance (and Exit) Leaving Tech World Bewildered

14. Sam's Club Speeds Up Shopping: AI Checkout to Zap Exit Lines!

15. Snap Out of Typos! Snapchat Adds Edit Button, Emoji Reactions, and AI Magic

16. Cloud Cash Grab: AI Startup CoreWeave Rockets to $19 Billion Valuation

17. Ivy League Gets Brainy: First AI Master's Degree Opens Doors (and Circuits)

18. Google Unveils AI Bootcamp: Get Your Workplace Ready for the Robot Revolution

19. Traceable Tracks $30 Million: AI Security Startup Scores Big Funding

20. Ideogram Pro Unveils: 12,000 AI-Generated Images at Your Fingertips

STARTUPS BITES

1. Freshworks Swings for the Fences: $230M Acquisition and New CEO at the Plate

2. Innovaccer's Got the Money Talks: Tiger Cub Eyes $250M Funding Round

3. Aikido Flips the Script: $17M for Developer-Friendly Security

4. Hyde Park Scores Big: $98M Fund IV Already Hits the Ground Running (Twice)

5. Ansa Makes a Mint: Female Investors Lead $14M Funding Spree

6. OpenAI Fund Makes Money Move: $15M Raised Under the Radar

7. Kubik Keeps it Plastic-Fantastic: Fresh Funds Fuel Tech Licensing for Greener Cities

8. Ola Hits the Brakes: 180 Jobs Cut in Ride-Sharing Revamp

9. Backflip Does a Flop? No Way! $15 Million Fuels Real Estate Flipping Platform

10. Chowdeck Chews on $2.5M: Can They Deliver in Cutthroat Food Delivery Market?

11. Beehiiv Buzzes with $33M: Making Newsletters the Honeycomb They Deserve

12. Microsoft Veterans Step Up Security: $3M for Startup StepSecurity

13. Rippl Makes a Splash: Seattle Startup Dives into Dementia Care with Kinto Acquisition

14. From Pulp Friction to Sustainable Stacks: Startup Turns Wood into Wonder Plastic

15. Texting Their Way to the Top: Ghent Startup Scores €700k for Automating Your Inbox

16. CroBio Crops the Future: €1.45 Million Seed Grows Microbial Drought Defense

17. Dublin Docks Piracy: AI Copyright Defender Ceartas Secures €4 Million

18. Andrena Assembles Avengers: €11.1 Million Fund Backs Europe's Fintech Mafia

19. Helsinki-based Kuva Space received a €1.8 million contract to join ESA’s civil security from space program

20. Parisian Panache: Carbonfact Scores €13.9 Million to Decarbonize Fashion

WEB3 BITES

1. CZ Binance'd: Crypto King Lands 4-Month Prison Sentence

2. MicroStrategy Bets on Bitcoin: Building Decentralized Identity Platform

3. Tether Tethers a Ton: Stablecoin Giant Banks Record $4.52 Billion Profit

4. BlackRock Goes Big on Blockchain: $47M Fuels Securitize's Tokenization Engine

5. Don't Get Crypto Conned: FBI Warns of Investment Scams

6. Slim Shady's Crypto Ad Misses the Beat: "Fortune Favors the Brave," But Not This Campaign

7. Rune Revolution: Bitcoin Gets Its Own Fungible Token Standard

8. DOJ Coins a Charge: Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Faces Tax Fraud Accusations

9. New Bitcoiners on the Block: Franklin Templeton Exec Bulls on Crypto Mix

10. Samourai Showdown: Wallet Founder Pleads Not Guilty, Gets Million Dollar Bailout

11. MoonPay Moonwalks into Mainstream: Buy Crypto with PayPal Now!

12. Sunken Treasure or Sunk Investment? Ex-FTX Boss Splashes $1.5M on Titanic Watch

13. Faked It to the Bankrupt: Feds Nab Crypto Ponzi Scheme Suspect ($43 Million Gone)

14. Big French Bank Bets on Bitcoin: BNP Paribas Dips Toe in with ETF

15. Block Bounced? Feds Probe Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Business

16. Michael Saylor Swings for the Fences: Betting Bitcoin Will Be the ETF Champ

17. Clash of Clans Cash Splash: Supercell Joins the Crypto Gaming Crusade

18. Bitcoin Gets Turbocharged: Rollups Promise 10x Faster Transactions

19. US Senators Urge President Joe Biden to Act on Crypto Regulation

20. Pike Finance Fished Twice in Three Days: Catches Were Anything But Catfish!

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