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• Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs [17d]
• Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors [17d]
• Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users [17d]
• The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem [17d]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department [17d]
• Meet Gizmo: a TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps [17d]
• AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation [17d]
• Amazon to begin testing AI tools for film and TV production next month [17d]
• A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going. [17d]
• Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout [17d]
• Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid [17d]
• Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches [17d]
• Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta [17d]
• ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation [17d]
• After backlash, Adobe cancels Adobe Animate shutdown and puts app on ‘maintenance mode’ [17d]
• Uber appoints new CFO as its AV plans accelerate [17d]
• Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots [17d]
• Apeiron Labs gets $9.5M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots [17d]
• Alexa+, Amazon’s AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S. [17d]
• SNAK Venture Partners raises $50M fund to back vertical marketplaces [17d]
• Spotify upgrades its lyrics feature with offline access, more translations [18d]
• Accel doubles down on Fibr AI as agents turn static websites into one-to-one experiences [18d]