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- Nomupay raises $37M at a $200M valuation to build payment rails in underserved markets across Asia [14d]
- VC investment in emerging markets plummeted by over 40% last year [14d]
- Indian government websites are still redirecting users to scam sites [14d]
- Delta SkyMiles members can now earn miles riding with Uber, as deal with Lyft nears end [15d]
- Sam Altman’s family responds to lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted his sister [15d]
- Delta Air Lines announces an AI-powered assistant in its mobile app and free onboard YouTube Premium and Music at CES 2025 [15d]
- Zeekr RT, the robotaxi built for Waymo, has the tiniest wipers [15d]
- Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law [15d]
- CES 2025 Day 1: Honda, BMW, X’s victory lap, and the first show floor gadget reveals [15d]
- X hires former WSJ editor and bureau chief to lead news group [15d]
- This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality [15d]
- Silicon Valley is so dominant again, its startups devoured over half of all global VC funding in 2024 [15d]
- This baseball radar gun plugs into an iPhone [15d]
- Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’ after several crashes [15d]
- AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia [15d]
- FTC accuses gig work app Handy of misleading ads and opaque fees for workers [15d]
- You can plug a second mic into Shure’s new MV7i [15d]
- Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers [15d]
- Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments [15d]
- Threads prototypes custom display names and cover images for profiles [15d]
- Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed [15d]
- Xpeng Aero HT unveils ‘flying car’ that’s part van, part eVTOL at CES 2025 [15d]
- South Park Commons is raising $40M for an India-specific fund [15d]
- Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement [15d]
- Honda reveals its futuristic ‘0 SUV’ prototype at CES 2025 [15d]
- Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025 [15d]
- HR software startup OnPay was inspired by the founder’s family payroll business [15d]
- BMW’s new UI puts widgets on the windshield at CES 2025 [15d]
- At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster [15d]
- What the heck happened at fintech Bench? [15d]
- Google puts $1M into 3D design app Rooms after more than 1 million ‘rooms’ created [15d]
- US government set to launch its Cyber Trust Mark cybersecurity labeling program for internet-connected devices in 2025 [15d]
- May Mobility reveals electric autonomous minibus at CES 2025 [15d]
- NXP to buy automotive safety software firm TTTech Auto for $625M [15d]
- Just Eat Takeaway completes Grubhub sale to Wonder for a modest $650M [15d]
- Microsoft plans to invest $3B in AI, cloud in India [15d]
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