How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List
A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app’s home page to follow your various interests. If you’re daunted by the prospect of having to rebuild your Twitter/X lists on Bluesky’s app, you can use the Pack2L
AI chip startup MatX, founded by Google alums, raises Series A at $300M+ valuation, sources say
MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25 million seed round.
Spark Capital led the investment, valuing the company at a pre-money valuation in the mid-$200
Revolut to launch mortgages, smart ATMs, and business credit products
Revolut, the London-based fintech unicorn, shared a few items on the company's 2025 roadmap at a corporate event in London on Friday. One of its main focuses for next year will be the introduction of an AI-enabled assistant to help its 50 million customers navigate the financial app, manage the
Plex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service
Streaming service and media software maker Plex on Friday introduced a redesign of its software that puts more emphasis on discovery, easily accessing your watchlist, and other personalization features — including those for home media enthusiasts who still use the app to organize their media libr
Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, co-founder and CEO resigns
Beleaguered Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt announced on Thursday that it was filing for bankruptcy in the U.S., striking a blow to Europe's ambitions for homegrown lithium-ion batteries.
The company reportedly chose Chapter 11 in an effort to right its finances. In the wake of the
Taking a cue from X, Threads tests AI-powered summaries of trending topics
As the Twitter-like social network Bluesky sees a significant surge in users this month, Meta's own X competitor Threads has been rapidly building out its platform. On Friday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that Threads will start testing AI-powered summaries of what people are discussin
StoreCash’s new app lets you instantly earn cash back at stores
Daricus Releford always wanted to be a founder.
In high school, he ran a hot dog station and in college launched a chocolate-covered strawberry business, making millions in sales before moving to Silicon Valley to pursue his dreams in tech. Entrepreneurship simply runs in his family, he told
Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner
Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division.
The OpenAI rival also said it’s working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, t
Apple’s mobile browser policies and Google pact are ‘holding back innovation,’ UK regulator says
An inquiry group set up by the U.K.’s antitrust authority has provisionally found that Apple's policies are “holding back innovation in the browsers we use to access the web on mobile phones.”
While the report focuses substantively on Apple, it also highlighted a revenue-shar
Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) to determine whether the trade group’s members conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms.” While the press release doesn’t name so
Future Google supplier Kairos gets approval to build two small nuclear reactors
Nuclear startup Kairos Power received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to start construction on two test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The permit marks a significant milestone for Kairos, which in October inked a deal with Google to provide 500 megawatts of electricity for i
Zepto raises another $350M amid retail upheaval in India
Zepto has secured $350 million in new funding, its third round of financing in six months, as the Indian quick-commerce startup strengthens its position against its competitors ahead of a planned IPO next year.
Indian family offices, wealthy individuals, and asset manager Motilal Oswal invested in
YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen feature can now generate AI video backgrounds
YouTube announced on Thursday that its Dream Screen feature for Shorts now lets you create AI-generated video backgrounds. Up until now, Dream Screen could only create image backgrounds. The new capability is possible due to the integration of Google DeepMind's AI video-generation model, Veo,
Marissa Mayer just laid out a possible business model for ad-supported AI chatbots
Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo’s CEO.
Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like