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Truecaller gets into the eSIM business to diversify its revenue streams
The company said its plans will range from 1 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 30 days. Initially, the launch will make the eSIM product available in 29 countries.
General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India’s travel payments market
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering
Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.
In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident … Read more
Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
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Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia
The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.
DOS Zone
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Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk’s AI financials and more details about his ambitions.
Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43 billion of holdings in startups
Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.
Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators — now it’s buying $2.8B more
Elon Musk’s xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX’s IPO filing.
Starship’s Twelfth Flight Test
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The Observability Crisis in AI Systems: Why Your Logs Are Lying to You
When AI started being adopted, the focus was on its capabilities and speed. Businesses wanted systems that could work independently across different areas. What they know now is that independent systems with unclear processes present a major operational risk. Now, they want to know how these systems are thinking, adapting, and making crucial decisions that … Read more
Google Declaring War on the Web
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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute
Elon Musk’s xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it’s worth.
SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever
Elon Musk’s final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in revenue in 2025, driven largely … Read more
Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup
Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.
You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it.
Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started — especially when ARK had already been burned by a company operating in the same space. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie … Read more
I Run Six Ideas At Once And My Brain Is Filing For Divorce
Right now, I have six ideas open in my head. RoastRocket just got its first users and is politely asking for more attention. Sync Motion and Brida IT are actually paying rent. OrangeTable is trying to become the default invoicing tool for Austrian solopreneurs who hate spreadsheets. Alpine42 is… doing whatever Alpine42 is doing this … Read more
‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. This week’s issue is a special early edition tied to The … Read more