Weekly Update 508

Light switches. How on earth is it so hard to find decent light switches?! It sounds ridiculous until you actually spend enough time looking for ones that meet two simple criteria:

  1. Aren’t stateful (switch is up or down, has to be push-button)
  2. Looks good

Now, I’

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Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)

Cathy Chan / Bloomberg:
Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is offering $1.5 bill…

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Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital  —  After Sergi Bastardas’ decade at Amazon an…

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