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Early Thanksgiving online sales numbers are up 7% YoY to $15.6B, on par with pre-pandemic trends [398d]
Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips [398d]
French court blocks popular porn site… subdomain [398d]
Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally) [398d]
Why AI agent startup /dev/agents commanded a massive $56M seed round at a $500M valuation [398d]
Australia approves law banning social media for under 16s [398d]
North Korean hackers have stolen billions in crypto by posing as VCs, recruiters and IT workers [399d]
Intenty nudges you to provide a reason every time you unlock your phone [399d]
EU ends Amazon state aid case with no back taxes in its basket [399d]
From pond scum to premium skincare? Deep Blue Biotech is all in on blue-green algae to make better chemicals [399d]
Financial inclusion drives African fintech M-KOPA to $400M in ARR [399d]
Google Chat now has its own take on Slack’s Huddles [399d]
HongShan, spun out of Sequoia last year, is reportedly struggling to invest its huge war chest [399d]
India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025 [399d]
FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft [399d]
Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024, says Ofcom [399d]