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It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes…
Yupp.ai shuts down less than a year after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in…
Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what? Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized. Meta…
Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats. The game is…
Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world. Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users…
Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1. Rec Room,…
Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to…
Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question…
Uber increases stake in WeRide as robotaxi partnership ramps up in Dubai Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a…
Hacker hijacks Axios open-source project, used by millions, to push malware A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a…