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Even in a time when funding is scarce, venture capitalists are s looking to invest in technology-driven startups that show innovation and potential. Startups that use technology to address issues in sectors like education, financial inclusion, and healthcare will be especially attractive to investors. “Rather than valuations, the focus should be on value creation”, quotes  Anil Gudibande, co-founder of 1Crowd.

Reports also state that the early stage of funding willonly  be considering after analysing the parameters such as ; path-to-profitablity, team and governance, cash flow cycle and over dependecce on single client.  Gudibande also added,“ it sis back to basics for many funds and better outcomes are expected from themt hech-driven investment plan”.

While speaking at the 14th edition of Infosys Prize, Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy voiced his concerns about the state of India’s education system, explaining how even the IITs are now falling victim to rote learning due to the “tyranny of coaching classes” He believes that our education system should be based more on Socratic questioning.

“Many experts feel that in our country, there is an inability to use research to solve our immediate pressing problems around us. This  is due to lack of inculcating curiosity at an early age, disconnect between pure or applied research,” he further commented. Suggested solutions to this include reorienting teaching in schools and colleges towards Socratic questioning in the classroom to solve real-world problems, and passing examinations by rote learning.

The Chief Executive Officier Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram to announce his new product last week. He is launching a subscription service called “Meta Verified“. This option will be available for both Instagram and Facebook and they will have separate subscriptions.

“This week we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support,” stated Mark.

In the creator industry, “impersonation” is a major challenge. People trying to impersonate creators or influencers and using their identities to perform unethical actions have been increasing substantially.

This new feature acts as a shield to increase authenticity and provide security across Instagram and Facebook. Meta Verified prices start at $11.99 / month on the web or $14.99 / month on iOS.

As of now, the “Meta Verified” subscription will be available in Australia and New Zealand this week and in more countries soon. The subscribers

with the blue-tick service will get direct access to customer support.

Known for his controversial tweets, Elon Musk has yet again grabbed attention by calling Twitter the “world’s largest non-profit“. His tweet skyrocketed and received a massive response of 36 million views and around 380,000 likes.

He wrote, “Say what you want about me, but I acquired the world’s largest non-profit for $44B lol“. When the American video game designer Derek Smart responded, “Now open source it, then we’ll be truly impressed“. To which Musk promptly replied, “Prepare to be disappointed at first when our algorithm is made open source next week, but it will improve rapidly!“.

The Twitter CEO has been talking about open-sourcing Twitter algorithm for quite a while. He plans to open-source the algorithm as soon as next week.

Twitter has also revealed that the Community Notes will start notifying users if their Community Note shows up on a tweet they have replied to, liked, or retweeted.

“Starting today, you’ll get a heads up if a Community Note starts showing on a Tweet you’ve replied to, Liked, or Retweeted. This helps give people extra context that they might otherwise miss,” tweeted the Community Notes handle.

ChatGPT has been the talk of the town. It is a technology that is changing many demographics of how humans work. Be it, students who use the platform for completing their homework or writers who use it for research purposes, ChatGPT has grabbed significant eyeballs in recent times.

There is a sudden upsurge experienced in e-books published on Amazon’s Kindle. Many individuals who dreamt of becoming an author are using the platform to accomplish their dream. With the help of ChatGPT, budding authors are able to write their books with ease and without much effort.

On the available evidence, MoneyControl states, “There were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author. And the number is rising daily. There is even a new sub-genre on Amazon: Books about using ChatGPT, written entirely by ChatGPT“.

ChatGPT is taking the book industry by storm. More and more would-be authors are turning to the platform to write their books and earn a quick buck. With the help of ChatGPT, the process from concept to publishing is getting easier and more efficient. The authors are on a roll to create multiple e-books and publish them the Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing arm.