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Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, marking its third mega-round in a year.

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Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, … Continue reading

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Google Classroom’s new tool uses Gemini to transform lessons into podcast episodes

Google Classroom now offers a Gemini-powered tool that generates podcast-style audio lessons for teachers to deepen engagement with students.

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Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia’s physical AI platform.

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How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge

Quilt’s heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.

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WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

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Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount’s bid again, calls it a ‘leveraged buyout’

The studio’s board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a “leveraged buyout” that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

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Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

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Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

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