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• After spending three years working on SMS verification at Zenly, Prelude wants to fix SMS onboarding [7d]
• Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million [7d]
• YouTube is now letting creators remix songs through AI prompting [7d]
• Swiggy market debut fuels India’s food, quick commerce wars [7d]
• Perplexity brings ads to its platform [7d]
• Donald Trump announces Elon Musk will co-lead Department of Government Efficiency [7d]
• NASA awards ‘sustainable’ aircraft concepts $11.5M [7d]
• Apple reportedly releasing a wall-mounted smart home tablet in 2025 – and yes, it does AI [7d]
• TechCrunch Space: Nothing to see here! [7d]
• 23andMe cuts 40% of staff in restructuring [7d]
• Generative disinfo is real — you’re just not the target, warns deepfake tracking nonprofit [7d]
• The Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture deal is now up to $5.8B [7d]
• TikTok is integrating with influencer shopping app LTK, videos show [7d]
• Trump expected to try to stop looming TikTok ban [7d]
• Anysphere acquires Supermaven to beef up Cursor [7d]
• What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor. [7d]
• Bluesky is seeing an exodus of unhappy X users following the election [7d]
• Chrome on iOS now lets you search using images and text at the same time [7d]
• FTC alleges neobank Dave misled customers [7d]
• Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to the big screen [7d]
• Apple reportedly shipping a security camera in 2026 [7d]
• Firefly Aerospace readies for a big year in orbit with $175M D round [7d]
• Here’s how to create a custom emoji with the Apple Intelligence feature ‘Genmoji’ [7d]