Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s X Spaces event crashes

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s joint X Spaces event appears to have crashed Monday afternoon. The conversation between the owner of X and the former president was scheduled for 5 p.m. PT, but users received an error message when joining at that time. “This Space is not available,”

Antler doubles down on Southeast Asia with $72M second startup fund

Antler, the Singapore VC that focuses on early-stage investments, just closed its second Southeast Asia fund. It’s raised $72 million to double down on startups in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. This should be welcome news for startups. Like other regions, Southeast Asia has fac

Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, quietly shuts down

Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, shut down in early August, the company confirmed to technewss. Score was only supposed to be a pop-up app, as technewss previously reported, and was only supposed to be around for 90 days. This was back in February. But it received

Crewed commercial SpaceX mission will traverse the poles like the explorers of old

A new commercial space mission will take off as early as this winter to observe the polar regions from low orbit — the first crewed mission to ever do so. It’s charmingly and anachronistically named Fram2, after the famous icebreaker used by Norwegian national hero Fridtjof Nansen to explor

a16z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down after running out of cash

Tally, a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage and pay off their credit card debt, has shut down, according to the company. In a LinkedIn post that was shared earlier Monday, founder and CEO Jason Brown said the “sad and difficult” decision to close down Tally was not the outcome

SEC charges crypto firm NovaTech with fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing a crypto startup, NovaTech, for allegedly fraudulently raising more than $650 million from over 200,000 investors, many in the Haitian-American community. The SEC frames NovaTech, founded in 2019 by husband-and-wife duo Cynthia and Eddy Pe

FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

"">FBI’s seizure notice of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware and extortion gang. Image Credits: FBI The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing, Radar’s website features a message from law enforceme

Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses

Balderton Capital — one of the older, larger European VCs noted for investing in Revolut and Wayve — has raised a fresh $1.3 billion in total, spread across two funds. Its Early Stage Fund IX will get $615 million, and its Growth Fund II will get $685 million. The news was greeted with cautio

TikTok comes for messaging apps with the addition of group chats

TikTok looks to be taking on popular messaging services like Meta’s WhatsApp and Apple’s Messages, as the company announced on Monday that it’s adding group chats to its platform. You can now create group chats with up to 32 people to chat and share content together. While peopl

Anduril reaches milestone with major defense hardware contract

Last week, Anduril and Palantir delivered the first Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) — picture a tactical military truck designed to sweep up massive amounts of data from sensors in space, as well as across terrains and high altitudes — reaching the first major milestone in i

Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store

Apple has threatened to remove creator platform Patreon from the App Store if creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system for Patreon’s subscriptions. In a blog post and email to Patreon creat

Meta, Universal Music Group address AI music in new licensing agreement

Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced on Monday the expansion of their multi-year music licensing agreement, which enables users to share songs from UMG’s music library across Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and WhatsApp) without violating copyright.  Wh

China's autonomous vehicle startup WeRide seeks US IPO at $5B valuation

WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is officially gearing up for a U.S. public debut, over a year after China started easing its effective ban of foreign IPOs. The company is seeking a valuation as high as $5.02 billion in its initial public offering. WeRide expects to raise about $96 m

Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries

Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results fro