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TikTok rolls out a ‘Nearby Feed’ to display local content in select countries

While TikTok is already known for its recommendation algorithm, which is able to target users with highly personalized content, the addition of a Nearby Feed gives it the ability to display even more relevant content to its users.

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Spotify says Wrapped 2025 is its biggest yet, with 200M+ users in its first day

After last year’s flop, Spotify Wrapped engagement is up 19% and shares were up 41%, the company says.

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Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake’s customers

AI research lab Anthropic inked a $200 million deal with Snowflake to bring its AI models to Snowflake’s 12,600 customers.

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EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

The European Commission is is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.

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Nexus isn’t going all-in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups

Nexus Venture Partners manages $3.2 billion in capital across its funds and has invested in more than 130 companies over the years.

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Gemini was Google’s top trending search term in 2025

Gemini wasn’t the only AI chatbot to make the list, as DeepSeek ranked seventh among the year’s trending searches.

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New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants

Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

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Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer

Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise money, but actually break through the … Continue reading

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Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups

Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.

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Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business

Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

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