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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social…

A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup Nvidia has invested in a startup founded by a former Google DeepMind senior research scientist…

Bluesky made more money selling t-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week, showing up at her keynote event in a…

xAI launches an API for generating images Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’ Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than…

Elon Musk’s X reportedly bounces back to $44B valuation Social media site X’s valuation has bounced back to $44 billion, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Elon…

In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund Ribbit Capital is raising $500 million for a new fund, an SEC filing seen by TechCrunch…

GM, Gatik, Torc team up with Nvidia to accelerate self-driving NVIDIA’s GTC conference kicked off with a series of announcements highlighting its role in advancing autonomous driving technology. The chipmaker…

Analytics company Dataminr secures $85M to fund growth Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and OpenAI among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible…

Streamer Plex raises subscription price for the first time in a decade Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price…