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A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which …
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Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage a…
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Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender ar…
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Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (David Nield/Wired)
David Nield / Wired : Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users …
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English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after ed…
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Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly "agentic" young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley (Sam Kriss/Harper's)
Sam Kriss / Harper's : Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and o…
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A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
Fred Lambert / Electrek : A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M ju…
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Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3…
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Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes commun…
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Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular module…
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OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)
Julia Black / Vanity Fair : OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships,…
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Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Leo Schwartz / Fortune : Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Serie…
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Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch : Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app de…
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Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limit…
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Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg : Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD c…
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