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Spacecoin beams blockchain transaction through space in bid for decentralized internet

Spacecoin envisions a decentralized rival to SpaceX’s Starlink.

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Perplexity acquires the team behind Sequioa-backed AI design startup Visual Electric

Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity

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Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance

Founder Bryan Onel says too many companies are doing the bare minimum to meet their security compliance obligations, and raised $33 million to help his customers get both compliant and secure.

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Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them

Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.

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Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)

The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users’ phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory — and one that the company has disputed before.

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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M

Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

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OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push

Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.

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Better Tomorrow Ventures closes $140M, remains bullish on fintech

The six-year-old firm’s third fund is nearly the size of it previous fund raised during the fintech boom in early 2022.

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Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood

Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she’s the first of many AI-generated stars.

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Chamath warns retail investors to avoid his new SPAC

The SPAC King’s newest, dubbed “American Exceptionalism,” went public with $345 million. But Chamath doesn’t want people to buy shares.

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