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Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)

Variational, which has built a protocol for decent...

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Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (Reuters)

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Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Mercury, which provides banking services to startu...

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Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-sourc...

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Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in p...

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Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed for AI agents, raised $250M led by a16z at a $2.2B valuation, up from $700M in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed...

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Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets (Reuters)

Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of i...

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Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $9.2B in sales globally in 2025, up 23% YoY; 73% of the growth in the US came from video-related revenue (Bloomberg)

Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $...

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Circle cofounder Sean Neville's Catena Labs, which lets users set financial guardrails for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A and applies for a US bank charter (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Circle cofounder Sean Neville's Catena Labs, which...

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Prelude, which helps companies with digital onboarding, raised a $20M Series A led by podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC, bringing its total funding to $27M (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Prelude, which helps companies with digital onboar...

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Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (The Register)

Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporari...

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S. "Soma" Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

S. "Soma" Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer...

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London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina (Damisola Sulaiman/Sifted)

London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce mercha...

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Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature cont...

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Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware (Reuters)

Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chi...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in to...

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Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week (Financial Times)

Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 50...

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GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories afte...

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