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• Etsy sells secondhand clothing marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2B [2d]
• Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein [2d]
• Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do [2d]
• A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app [2d]
• SeatGeek and Spotify team up to offer concert ticket sales inside the music platform [2d]
• Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months [2d]
• Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features [2d]
• Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers [2d]
• Google debuts $499 Pixel 10a [2d]
• Audible’s new ‘Read & Listen’ feature syncs your Kindle ebooks with audiobooks [2d]
• X continues to bet on vertical video with its latest update [2d]
• Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app [2d]
• Snapchat+ tops 25M subscribers, driving company’s direct revenue ARR to $1B [2d]
• Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers [2d]
• This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months [2d]
• Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI [2d]
• OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills [2d]
• Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises [2d]
• World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows [2d]
• India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses [2d]
• Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech [2d]
• Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI [2d]
• DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter [2d]