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Bitcoin jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, while Aptos eyes Hong Kong and Telegram rolls out rewards with TON

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot gets smarter with new plugins and skills

Mill’s updated bin will turn your food waste into chicken feed before breakfast

Polestar lands $1B loan to keep EV plans on track

MWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit

SynFlora is working on bioengineering a skincare revolution

Lizcore’s sport tracking system is minimalist enough for indoor climbers to actually use

Doublepoint launches its WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Pixel Watch 2

UiPath finds firmer financial footing with pivot to general automation and AI

Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’ to offset OpenAI competition concerns

Truecaller brings call recording and transcription to India

Stellantis CEO dishes on Waymo, Rivian cuts staff and the great EV softening continues

These desktop lamps beam near-infrared light, in a bid to improve your mood

Heck, might as well put the back of your phone to work

Amba Kak creates policy recommendations to address AI concerns

Google releases new open LLMs, Rivian lays off staff and Signal rolls out usernames

Equity Shot: All about the Reddit IPO!

Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April

Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing

For Redditors who treat trading like trolling, Reddit’s IPO could be the ultimate meme

Locker organizes your shopping links into virtual wish lists and collages

Hivemapper reveals new Bee dashcam as its latest weapon against Google’s map dominance

Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames

MariaDB’s potential take-private deal is an indictment of 2021’s SPAC mania

Ford cuts prices on electric Mustang as demand softens for premium EVs

US, UK authorities claim seizure of LockBit ransomware gang’s dark web leak site

Planity raises $48 million because even hair salons need their own SaaS product

Singapore-based fintech Xalts acquires digital trade platform Contour Network

TechTaka raises $9.5M for its e-commerce fulfillment service

Ford preps for its next big fight, Waymo recalls its self-driving car software and layoffs come for another AV startup

Family tragedy for former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki

Miruku grabs more capital as its plant-based dairy tech reaches proof of concept

With Twilio under activist pressure, Segment could be put up for sale

PayPal Ventures’ first AI investment, a credit-based dating app and Robinhood’s good week

Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks

OpenAI releases Sora, a credit score–based dating app launches and an anti-Tesla ad comes under fire

Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available

Pitch Deck Teardown: Equals’ $16M Series A deck

Cash App takes on Apple with a 4.5% APY for savings accounts (with direct deposit)

Google’s new AI hub in Paris proves that Google feels insecure about AI

Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing down

Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30M

Solana-based DeFi, airdrops propel crypto wallet Phantom’s user base to new heights

Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse

Otter brings GenAI to your meetings with AI summaries, AI chat and more

Motif Analytics brings sequence analytics to growth teams

Switzerland’s Wingman Ventures rebrands to Founderful, aims for a $120M fund

A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and burned in San Francisco

Kenya’s Ilara Health gets $4.2M backing to expand clinic-support services

Peak XV takes startups on a Silicon Valley trip in AI push

Google’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats

Uber hits a profit milestone, Ford builds an EV skunksworks and Fisker fumbles

Maybe we’ll finally see a fintech IPO in 2024

Bluesky opens to everyone, Rivian reveals its new SUV, and governments exploit iPhones

Safety by design

Deal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startups

Why a B2B startup is placing a bet on a $7M Super Bowl ad

Fisker Ocean owners flagged sudden power loss and brake problems for months, internal documents show

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the app trying to replace Twitter

Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users in its first day open to the public, despite outages

Varsity is a new early stage VC fund based in Paris

EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes

Toyota adds $1.3B to US factory to produce three-row all-electric SUV

Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks shuts its doors

Yandex takes a big hit to get rid of Russian assets

Naboo provides an Aibnb-like experience for company seminars

India’s Paytm is in flux

Motional loses a backer, another micromobility bankruptcy and a mobility startup unicorn is born

Perhaps this is why the bitcoin spot ETFs are yet to send crypto prices to the moon

Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins: “More than 80%” of pitches now involve AI

Apple launches the Vision Pro, Taylor Swift fans strike back and Palworld comes under fire

Apple Vision Pro: Here are the first apps you should download

Spotify’s podcast exclusive days are over as Joe Rogan’s show expands to other platforms

Activist investors are coming for Etsy