Square and Cash App return online after extended unexplained outage

Friday, September 08, 2023

Today’s top story is about the outage over at Square that started on Thursday. The fintech giant said services are coming back Friday after the daylong outage left small business owners unable to process payments. Here’s what happened.

Meanwhile, India’s Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build a large language model that is trained on the country’s diverse languages. There’s supercomputers involved.

And find out what the Federal Aviation Administration had to say about SpaceX in the Starship Heavy incident.

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TC Opinion: How badly will AI-generated images impact elections?

An image of Pope Francis in a white puffer jacket may not be high stakes, but consider the damage one bad actor could inflict by using deepfakes to manipulate voters during an election.

According to Kyle Walter, head of research at Logically, “the question we really need to be asking now is not, ‘When will AI have an impact?’ but ‘How influential could the technology be, and how likely will it be used in coordinated disinformation campaigns?'”

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Tomorrow University’s $10M Series A deck

Condensing a pitch deck into 16 slides or less is a genuine narrative challenge, but edtech startup Tomorrow University recently raised a $10 million Series A with just 10 slides:

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Historical context
Goal
Mission
Solution
Product
Traction
Market
Team
Closing

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The Equity crew is looking into Mentra’s plan to help neurodivergent jobseekers, as well as how SimpleClosure might be betting on the downturn, what’s next for the Argo AI founders, Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 Demo Day, and how the EU is cracking down on major tech companies.