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Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
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Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook announces tools to boost COVID-19 vaccines: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, and labeling all vaccine posts — One new tool helps people in the US find a place and time to get vaccinated. … Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants — The voice chat app will provide users with resources and help them monetize their shows — During Clubhouse's weekly town hall on Sunday …
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Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x — Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced …
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Federal judge rules Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode — - Judge concludes company didn't notify users of data collection — Class action suit alleges Google knows ‘who your friends are’
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
A look at issues arising around digital ownership and NFTs: while they can be a source of revenue for creators, they are spurring new forms of piracy — If there was a contest for acronym of the year, “NFT” would be the clear favorite for 2021. Short for non-fungible tokens …
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| Reuters: |
Baidu says its AI chip unit Kunlun recently raised funding, source says at a $2B valuation led by Chinese PE firm CITIC Capital — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search giant Baidu Inc said on Monday that its artificial intelligence chip unit Kunlun recently completed a round of fundraising …
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| Bryce Roberts: |
In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed — Last week's post was designed to be a simple and direct announcement that our initial Indie.vc experiment was ending and would no longer be accepting applications.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Centrical, a startup developing an employee engagement and performance management service, raises $32M led by Intel Capital and JVP — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Centrical, a startup developing an employee engagement …
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
Insitro, which uses machine learning to speed up drug discovery, raises $400M led by Canada Pension Plan; other investors include SoftBank, Temasek, and a16z — Start-up run by former Stanford professor uses AI to analyse human genetics and work out where to target drugs| Bloomberg: |
Megvii files for an IPO in Shanghai, which may raise at least $922M; Megvii's HK IPO application had lapsed after it was blacklisted by the Trump administration — - Chinese AI firm will list CDRs on the Shanghai Star board — Offering may raise at least 6 billion yuan for R&D, capitalSponsor Posts
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