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TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking — According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR — WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down — The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation — Data analytics software company Databricks has landed $1.8 billion in fresh debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings — Some of the world's biggest crypto exchanges are racing to let their customers trade crypto tokens that seek to track U.S. stocks …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI — Famed artificial intelligence researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new startup called …
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| The Information: |
Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal — Brex's $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn't the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, “Me Meme”, lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US — Google Photos will now let you make memes with your own images. On Thursday, Google introduced a new generative AI-powered feature called … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US DOJ opened a criminal probe and sent out grand-jury subpoenas in recent weeks over allegations that Deel recruited a spy inside rival Rippling — Subpoenas seek information on allegations that Deel, valued at around $17 billion, recruited a spy inside a rival company
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China deepens its probe into Meta's Manus acquisition in December to investigate cross-border currency flows, tax accounting, and overseas investments — Beijing is deepening an investigation into Meta Platforms Inc.'s $2 billion acquisition of Chinese-founded AI startup Manus … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — Wild things happen in the self-storage business. — In 2023, Matt Engfer was at back-to-back lien auctions in Texas.
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Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion — The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it is temporarily pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a new version of AI characters — Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not abandoning …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Associated Press, Meta Newsroom, MediaPost, Reuters, and Mashable
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test — What we learned from three iterations of a performance engineering take-home that Claude keeps beating.
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