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An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's “masculine energy”, Silicon Valley's “cloying conformity” and “combination of machismo and self-pity”, and more — When Britain's former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's three-year iPhone redesign plan, starting with iPhone Air this fall, foldable with Touch ID in 2026, and a curved-glass “iPhone 20” in 2027 — Apple is weeks away from its big product launch event, where it will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul.
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face — The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months. https://huggingface.co/...
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| Bloomberg: |
The US CFTC staff describe chaos, cutbacks, and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia as the agency prepares to take on new crypto regulatory duties — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is poised to take on vast new responsibilities. Staff describe chaos, cutbacks and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia.
More: Bitcoinist.com and Bitcoin News
| Jessica Hagen / Mobi Health News: |
Twin Health, which uses AI-based digital twin tech to provide personalized diabetes and metabolic health guidance, raised a $53M Series E at a $950M valuation — The company plans to expand partnerships with health plans and employers to provide more individuals with digital twin technology designed to improve metabolic health.
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LinkedIn: Twin Health, Will Griffith, Twin Health, NEJM Catalyst, and Twin Health
| Beth Rose / BBC: |
How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape — “After such a long time, I couldn't really remember my voice,” Sarah Ezekiel tells BBC Access All. “When I first heard it again, I felt like crying.
More: Tech Xplore, New York Post, and BBC
LinkedIn: Matt McCarty, The 10,000 Brains Project, and Son V Truong
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
AI infrastructure company Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M — The US AI infrastructure company is acquiring the GPU management firm in a cash-and-stock deal. 25 Atero employees will become the company's development center in Israel.| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
Tel Aviv-based Seemplicity, whose AI-based tech automates enterprise vulnerability and exposure management, raised a $50M Series B led by Sienna Venture Capital — Remediation operations startup Seemplicity has raised $50M in a Series B funding round.
More: Seemplicity, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, FinTech Global, Pulse 2.0, Unite.AI, and Tech Funding News
| Forbes: |
UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 — Revenue from Chinese social media giant ByteDance's short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures — A startup called Cascading AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $29 million Series A funding round to support the expansion … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners — Self-styled “synthetic labor” startup KnowledgeLake Inc. has become the latest “agentic” artificial intelligence platform to attract millions in funding.| Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: |
Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners — The company, which helps shippers track shipments and fight cargo theft, plans more acquisitions — Supply-chain risk management company …
More: Supply Chain Dive, Overhaul, Overhaul, Austin Business Journal, PYMNTS.com, Pulse 2.0, and VC News Daily
| Lane Florsheim / Wall Street Journal: |
How Raya, a privately held dating app with a waitlist of 2.5M people, found success through its rigorous user selection process and Fight Club-style rules — The privately held company has attracted an A-list clientele and even gotten Gen Z onboard with online dating.
X: @tjtaylr
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor — I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code. — I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup.Sponsor Posts
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