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A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […] from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Wd12SN8

Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout

Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ACYgOZM

Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/UkmFieM

Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/iUfjWhz

Watch Club is producing short video dramas and building a social network around them

Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/iv4rUFf

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/UmgxbRC

TikTok says its services are restored after the outage

TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by snowstorm from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ax5CSXq