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😱 Spotify, Meta and others Blast EU

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🔦 Startup Spotlight : Gumroad

5-year search growth: 376%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2012

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $16.1M (Equity Crowdfunding)

What they do: Digital creators have traditionally struggled to monetize their audiences. Gumroad is the answer for over 179,000 creators who have sold more than $979 million on the platform. Their platform lets creators sell anything from blog posts to cookbooks.

🤖 AI & Automation Update:

⭕ Tech Trend Radar:

Spotify, Meta and others blast EU’s decision-making on AI and Data Privacy

A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union Thursday for its “fragmented and inconsistent” decision-making on data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI).

🤵🏻 Founder's Corner:

Kavin Bharti Mittal: Founder & CEO at Hike

The son of one of India's wealthiest and most prominent telecommunications magnate, Mittal had all the privileges bestowed upon him since childhood.

🌱 Sustainable Tech:

What Does OpenAI’s New Breakthrough Mean for Energy Consumption?

Why the new “reasoning” models might gobble up more electricity — at least in the short-term

Meet the second Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change Cohort in Europe

Axle Energy allows EVs, home batteries, and heat pumps to help balance the grid and cut emissions.

Are Microsoft’s AI-powered robots a solution to e-waste or more waste?

Microsoft's AI-powered robots aim to reduce e-waste by dismantling hard drives for recycling, but …

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🧠 Jargon Buster (Explain it to me like I’m 10):

Zero-day exploit:

Imagine you have a secret code to unlock a treasure chest. No one else knows the code, so you're the only one who can open it.

Now, imagine someone figured out the code without you knowing. That person could steal the treasure before you even knew it existed.

That's kind of like a zero-day exploit. It's a secret weakness in a computer program that people can use to do bad things before the people who made the program even know it's there.

Cheers,

Soumya, Editor