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He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival “dishonest” and “authoritarian.”

The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.

Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target. 

Having raised a €30 million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now among the most well-capitalized European startups founded by Stripe alumni.

Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst’s question about Apple on the company’s earnings call.

Google revealed a significant milestone for it’s Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

WordPress is helping the non-profit fight the scourge of “link rot.”

The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.

Gizmo’s app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps…and it’s a lot of fun.

The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.

Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV production.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking … Read more

Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches.

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.

Roblox’s highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

ElevenLabs’ valuation has raised more than three times in the last twelve months.

Uber is promoting Balaji Krishnamurthy, its VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing its current finance chief Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah.

SNAK Venture Partners announced Wednesday the close of its oversubsubscribed $50 million debut fund, anchored by Pritzker Group. 

Amazon opens Alexa+ to everyone in the U.S. The AI feature is free for Prime members across devices, and free for everyone on mobile and web.

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water. Below that, the picture gets murkier. Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but … Read more

Fibr AI replaces marketing agency– and engineering-heavy website personalization with autonomous systems designed for enterprise scale.

Spotify is revamping its lyrics feature, adding offline access for Premium users, global lyric translations, and a more prominent placement in the Now Playing view.

The investment comes from backers including the Qatar Investment Authority as demand for chips beyond Nvidia soars and as Qatar aims to build out its AI infrastructure.

Attia co-founded longevity medical testing startup Biograph, which came out of stealth a year ago.

Varaha’s fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.

Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they’ve put much of their work on hold to help out their community.

All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins.

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.