Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
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Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch
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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again
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Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
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TED leader’s $300M ‘valley of death’ fund might be just what later-stage climate tech needs
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Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’
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X’s encrypted DM feature, XChat, is rolling out more broadly
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OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn
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Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns
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