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• KPay, a financial management platform for SMEs, raises $55M Series A [456d]
• The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you [456d]
• Judge confirms decision to sink Elon Musk’s $56B pay package despite Tesla shareholder vote [456d]
• Threads takes on Bluesky with more advanced search [456d]
• FTC fines online retailer Goat $2M over deceptive ‘Instant’ and ‘Next Day’ orders [456d]
• GM offloads one of its battery factories to joint venture partner LGES [456d]
• Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? Digital privacy requests may be at fault [456d]
• AWS bets on liquid cooling for its AI servers [456d]
• Jeff Bezos backs AI chipmaker Tenstorrent [456d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [456d]
• Coinbase now lets you buy crypto with Apple Pay in third-party apps [456d]
• An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices [456d]
• Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan [456d]
• Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe [456d]
• Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires [456d]
• Cloud security specialist Upwind confirms it raised $100M at a $900M valuation [456d]
• Ex-NBA athlete Omri Casspi launches $60M fund targeting cybersecurity, cloud infra and AI [456d]
• Retail outages drag into second week after Blue Yonder ransomware attack [456d]
• Musk busts through the UK political china shop [456d]
• BlackRock marks down its investment in Automattic by 10% [456d]
• European AI infra company Nebius nabs $700M from Nvidia, Accel, others [456d]
• The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser [456d]
• Prosus expects 5 IPOs from its India portfolio in next 18 months [457d]
• ‘Brain rot’ wins as Oxford’s word of the year [457d]
• Swiggy scales 10-minute food delivery to 400 cities in quick-commerce push [457d]
• AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data [457d]
• AWS launches an incident response service to combat cybersecurity threats [457d]
• AWS wants to make your call center interactions less painful [457d]
• Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back in person [457d]