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Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost

Amazon Autos, which kicked off last year with Hyundai, initially started with new cars. The deal with Ford pushes it into used car territory.

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Ramp hits $32B valuation, just three months after hitting $22.5B 

In 2025 alone, Ramp has leapt from being worth $13 billion to $32 billion with new rounds every few months.

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Cisco acquires translation startup EzDubs

Cisco has acquired Y-Combinator-backed translation app EzDub to integrate it into its communication suite.

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Luminar is fighting with its biggest customer as bankruptcy threat looms

The fight comes at a perilous time for Luminar, which is running out of cash and under SEC investigation.

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Sequoia-backed fintech Aspora will let Indian diaspora pay bills back home

UK-based Aspora, which has focused on remittances, will let non-resident Indians pay bills back home.

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Google rolls out its AI ‘Flight Deals’ tool globally, adds new travel features in Search

To get started, users need to describe where, when, and how they want to travel. Flight Deals will then use AI to display the best bargains available.

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DoorDash confirms data breach impacting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses

The delivery giant said “no sensitive information” was accessed, and did not specify the number of customers, delivery workers, and merchants who were impacted by the breach.

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PowerLattice attracts investment from ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger for its power saving chiplet

PowerLattice, a startup founded by veteran electrical engineers from Qualcomm, NUVIA, and Intel in 2023, claims to have developed a groundbreaking approach that reduces the power needs of computer chips by more than 50%.

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Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus

Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive.

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Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework

Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield. 

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