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Nikola founder Trevor Milton is fighting a subpoena from his bankrupt company’s creditors

The recently-pardoned founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, has been fighting a subpoena from the creditors of his bankrupt electric trucking company.

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Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment fees

A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.

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Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR

Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by a returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and DST Global. The massive … Continue reading

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Circle IPO soars giving hope to more startups waiting to go public

Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, ended its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share, 168% above its IPO price of $31 set the previous day. … Continue reading

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Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?

Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 election campaign, but now, the tech mogul is calling for Trump’s impeachment.

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Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the Moon

Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack talking each other into their own digital echo chambers

Well, it finally happened. This town wasn’t big enough for the two towering egos of billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and now they’re duking it out publicly, albeit from their own separate corners of the web. Musk is … Continue reading

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Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says

Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it’s working on.

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Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics

Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.

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Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too

The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. 

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