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Sources: Lightspeed, whose bets include Wiz, Anthropic, and Stripe, returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years, with $3B+ coming in 2024 (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Sources: Lightspeed, whose bets include Wiz, Anthropic,...

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Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Sources: Lightspeed, whose bets include Wiz, Anthrop...

Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash in 2024, up from $218.5B in 2023, with $162.8B on Uber, $80.2B on DoorDash, and $16.1B on Lyft (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)

Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, Lyft, and Do...

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J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, L...

The website of President Trump's World Liberty Financial shows the crypto project sold 24B+ of its 25B WLFI tokens after a slow start, implying sales of $1.25B (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

The website of President Trump's World Liberty Financia...

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The website of President Trump's World Liberty Financ...

Zelle's payment volume crossed $1T in 2024, the most ever for a P2P platform, user base jumped 12% YoY to 151M accounts, and the total dollars sent grew 27% YoY (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Zelle's payment volume crossed $1T in 2024, the most ev...

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Hugh Son / CNBC: Zelle's payment volume crossed $1T in 2024, the most ever for...

Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Italian football club Juventus, as part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into sports franchises (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Italian ...

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Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Ital...

DeepSeek's rise has turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies (Lauren Faith Lau/Bloomberg)

DeepSeek's rise has turned the spotlight on its hometow...

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DeepSeek's rise has the turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies (Lauren Faith Lau/Bloomberg)

DeepSeek's rise has the turned the spotlight on its hom...

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Lauren Faith Lau / Bloomberg: DeepSeek's rise has the turned the spotlight on ...

Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises enforce policies in real-time for privileged access to systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Brightmind (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises ...

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterpr...

Fal.ai, a Turkish startup specializing in AI-generated media for enterprise use, raised a $49M Series B led by Notable Capital, taking its total funding to $72M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)

Fal.ai, a Turkish startup specializing in AI-generated ...

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Lucy Adams / Tech.eu: Fal.ai, a Turkish startup specializing in AI-generated m...

Sources: Anthropic expects to burn $3B in 2025, down from $5.6B in 2024, and make up to $3.7B in revenue in 2025, as it seeks to catch up with OpenAI (The Information)

Sources: Anthropic expects to burn $3B in 2025, down fr...

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The Information: Sources: Anthropic expects to burn $3B in 2025, down from $5....

Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, raised a $300M Series D led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation; CEO Winston Weinberg says ARR surpassed $50M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms,...

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Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law fir...

Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews related activities conducted since 2017, to comply with Trump's January 20 EO on "ending federal censorship" (Eric Geller/Wired)

Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews rel...

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Eric Geller / Wired: Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews relat...

Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 2025, a $6/month add-on that will include higher-quality audio, early access to concert tickets, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 20...

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 2...

Sources detail Sam Altman and Elon Musk's disintegrating relationship and how Altman secretly worked around Musk to blindside him with the Stargate announcement (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail Sam Altman and Elon Musk's disintegratin...

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Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake and fully running Intel's US factories after a Trump team request, as Trump aims to boost manufacturing (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake and fully ru...

Perplexity releases Deep Research, offering five queries daily to free users and 500 to subscribers, available now on the web and soon on iOS, Android, and Mac (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Perplexity releases Deep Research, offering five querie...

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Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business (New York Times)

Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration...

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New York Times: Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TS...

Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book licensing efforts in April 2023 after contacting publishers and seeing "slow uptake" and logistical setbacks (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book licens...

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book li...

Filing: Trump Media reports 2024 revenue down 12% YoY to $3.6M and a $400M net loss, up from $58.2M in 2023; the company has a $6.6B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Filing: Trump Media reports 2024 revenue down 12% YoY t...

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Jordan Novet / CNBC: Filing: Trump Media reports 2024 revenue down 12% YoY to ...

Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B led by Align Ventures and Parkway VC at a $39.5B valuation, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to r...

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Bloomberg: Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B l...

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that would block Google from investing in AI startups, saying it would harm Anthropic and the competition (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that...

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy tha...

OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, saying they reject "Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition" (New York Times)

OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and ...

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New York Times: OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a conso...

How crypto companies like Coinbase co-opted legitimate concerns about "debanking" to fight regulation, threatening to derail meaningful progress on the issue (Molly White/Citation Needed)

How crypto companies like Coinbase co-opted legitimate ...

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Molly White / Citation Needed: How crypto companies like Coinbase co-opted legi...

Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of anticompetitive practices like coercing restaurants to exclusively work with DoorDash for parts of their delivery business (Heather Haddon/Wall Street Journal)

Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of anticompetitive prac...

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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of antic...

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