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• Saronic raises $600M to mass-produce autonomous warships [370d]
• Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections [370d]
• After raising $1 billion, fintech Varo closes another $29 million, replaces founder CEO [370d]
• Uber ditches commissions in favor of daily fees for rickshaw drivers in India [370d]
• Brand-new women’s focused Swizzle Ventures skyrockets past its fundraising target [370d]
• Mark Zuckerberg’s charity U-turns, ends DEI efforts [370d]
• Spanish spyware startup Mollitiam Industries shuts down [370d]
• IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back [370d]
• Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft [370d]
• This Week in AI: Maybe we should ignore AI benchmarks for now [370d]
• Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities [370d]
• Google pulls Gemini from main search app on iOS [370d]
• ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading [370d]
• Sanas taps AI to change call center workers’ accents in real time [370d]
• Google brings a ‘Circle to Search’-like feature to iPhone users [370d]
• Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days [370d]
• Apple’s $599 iPhone 16e adds AI, launches February 28 [370d]
• Instagram upgrades DMs with music-sharing, message scheduling, translation and more [370d]
• US Army soldier pleads guilty to AT&T and Verizon hacks [370d]
• X in talks to raise money at a $44B valuation [370d]
• Bumble sunsets acquired apps, Fruitz and Official, to cut costs [370d]
• Australian IVF giant Genea confirms hackers ‘accessed data’ during cyberattack [370d]
• Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy [370d]
• Hyperlume wants to make chip-to-chip communication faster and more efficient [370d]
• Superhuman introduces AI-powered categorization to reduce spammy emails in your inbox [370d]
• Augury raises $73M at $1B+ valuation for AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines [370d]
• NIH funding uncertainty spurs new biotech venture fund [370d]
• Murena now sells a ‘deGoogled’ Pixel Tablet [370d]
• Palo Alto Networks warns of another firewall vulnerability under attack by hackers [370d]
• Guidde taps AI to help create software training videos [370d]
• A former Etsy product manager built an AI-powered app for new parents [370d]