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World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places

World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verify...

World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices,...

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Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-f...

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Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035

Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from gen...

Meta made a prediction last year its generative AI products would rake in $2 bil...

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Rippling is trying to serve Deel’s CEO, but bailiffs can’t find him

Rippling is trying to serve Deel’s CEO, but bailiffs ca...

HR tech startup Rippling is trying to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz with papers as...

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Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on ...

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Lime’s scooter and e-bike batteries will be recycled by Redwood Materials

Lime’s scooter and e-bike batteries will be recycled by...

Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries use...

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Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation

Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, rai...

U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in dat...

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RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics

RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate ...

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Google to embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

Google to embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting A...

Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for...

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Billionaire Elon Musk has just been countersued by OpenAI, but that isn’t stoppi...

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Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to Nissan vehicles

Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to Nissan vehicles

Nissan said it will use self-driving software developed by Wayve to beef up its ...

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How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to become Sequoia’s first defense tech investment

How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to becom...

As Sequoia Capital’s first defense tech investment, Mach Industries is an indust...

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A fresh $100M rolls into DIG Ventures as it bids to woo early-stage European startups

A fresh $100M rolls into DIG Ventures as it bids to woo...

The number of “operator VCs” — former founders turned VCs — in Europe in recent ...

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No, Stripe is not becoming a bank

No, Stripe is not becoming a bank

Last week, details emerged about an application that fintech giant Stripe had su...

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Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos

Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto...

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Instagram is beefing up its search to compete with TikTok

Instagram is beefing up its search to compete with TikTok

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company is looking to improve the app’s sea...