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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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An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan's Substack)

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI ...

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Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching ...

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Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scien...

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Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China hav...

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Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months (Financial Times)

Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not ...

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