| 11:05 PM • | Alana Semuels / TIME: Intel commits $20B to build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site by 2025, employing at least 3,000 people in New Albany, Ohio |
| 9:30 PM • | Nesrine Malik / The Guardian: How Facebook became indispensable in Africa with its ease of access, importance to small businesses, its facilitating of community organizing, and more |
| 8:30 PM • | Sue Halpern / New Yorker: Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot |
| 7:35 PM • | Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text |
| 6:40 PM • | Washington Post: Analysis: many right-wing personalities saw their followers surge on sites like Telegram, Gab, and Gettr after the January 6 riot, but growth has since stalled |
| 5:55 PM • | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 15.3 RC and macOS Monterey 12.2 RC with a fix for Safari 15's IndexedDB API that leaked users' browser history and Google ID to other sites |
| 5:20 PM • | New York Times: DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is leaving Google to join Greylock Partners; Suleyman was stripped of some duties in 2019 for allegedly bullying staff |
| 5:05 PM • | Coral Murphy Marcos / New York Times: DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is leaving Google to join Greylock Partners; Suleyman was stripped of some duties in 2019 for allegedly bullying staff |
| 4:20 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $7.71B, up 16% YoY, net income of $607M, 222M paid subscribers, and $30B in 2021 revenue, up 19%; stock down 20%+ on weak guidance |
| 3:01 PM • | Jeff Cox / CNBC: The US Federal Reserve releases its long-awaited report on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position on issuing one, and seeks public feedback for 120 days |
| 2:40 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Prophecy, which lets data engineers build workflows by switching between a visual interface and a code editor, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners |
| 2:30 PM • | John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after joining Apple in May 2021 |
| 1:45 PM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' |
| 1:37 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: OpenSea suffered a database outage affecting some services that rely on its APIs to display NFTs, including Twitter and MetaMask; the issue has been fixed |
| 1:25 PM • | Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures |
| 12:35 PM • | Lydia Moynihan / New York Post: Sources: TikTok ousted its marketing chief Nick Tran for “going rogue” with plans like TikTok Kitchen, NFTs by Lil Nas X and others, and TikTok Resumes |
| 12:30 PM • | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: Current and former members of Google's site reliability group Borg SRE say managers, including the team's leader Pierre Aubert, fostered a toxic environment |
| 12:25 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Mercedes-Benz plans to use Luminar's lidar tech in future vehicles in exchange for data and services, and takes a small 1.5M share stake in Luminar |
| 12:12 PM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection |
| 11:45 AM • | Kim Lyons / The Verge: Meta launches gamified activities on Messenger Kids to help kids learn how to safely use the internet, developed with guidance from online safety experts |
| 11:30 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Atom Computing, which aims to build a quantum computer based on neutral atom tech that uses lasers to manipulate individual qubits, raises a $60M Series B |
| 11:10 AM • | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B |
| 11:00 AM • | Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day |
| 10:35 AM • | Reuters: Sources: ByteDance revenue grew by 70% YoY to around $58B in 2021, slower than a year earlier when its revenue grew by 100%+ to $34.3B |
| 10:30 AM • | Mahira Dayal / The Information: TikTok says it is testing letting creators charge subscriptions for their content |
| 10:25 AM • | Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: Virtru, which offers encryption for data shared over email, SaaS apps, and more, raises a $60M Series C, bringing its total funding to $136.8M |
| 10:25 AM • | Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research: Research: global music subscribers hit 523.9M in Q2 2021, up 26.4% YoY; Spotify had 31% market share; Apple Music, 15%; Amazon Music, 13%, and YouTube Music, 8% |
| 9:40 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: 6sense, which offers AI-based sales prediction and marketing tools, raises $200M co-led by Blue Owl and MSD Partners at a $5.2B valuation |
| 9:25 AM • | Josh Scott / BetaKit: Montreal-based Shakepay, which lets Canadians buy and sell bitcoin, raises a ~$35M Series A at a $313M valuation led by QED Investors |
| 8:40 AM • | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Chicago-based BlockFills, which helps financial institutions build digital asset trading businesses and finances crypto miners, raises a $37M Series A |
| 8:20 AM • | Reuters: Russia's central bank proposes banning cryptocurrency use and mining, citing threats to financial stability, citizens' wellbeing, and monetary sovereignty |
| 8:05 AM • | Maija Palmer / Sifted: Swiss startup Terra Quantum, which offers cloud-based quantum computing as a service, raises a $60M Series A |
| 8:00 AM • | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: Apple countersues Ericsson, seeking a US import ban on mobile base stations and proposes that both parties withdraw all patent infringement actions |
| 7:55 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: South Korea's Greenlabs, which wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution, raises a $140M Series C |
| 7:50 AM • | Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: Berlin-based EMnify, which offers a cloud platform for cellular connectivity in the IoT stack, raises €50M from One Peak, bringing its total funding to €70M |
| 7:45 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Vienna-based PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate documents and communication, raises a $70M Series B |
| 7:40 AM • | Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: File sharing service WeTransfer is seeking to raise €125M, less than the €160M initially targeted, in an Amsterdam IPO at up to a €716M valuation |
| 7:35 AM • | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Amazon Style, the company's first physical fashion store, will launch in LA later this year, with an app that lets shoppers send items to the fitting room |
| 7:25 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Chennai-based M2P Fintech, which provides payment infrastructure to legacy banks and fintech startups in India, raises a $56M Series C at a ~$605M valuation |
| 7:20 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Meta plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, display NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace |
| 6:50 AM • | Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: Sources: by March, a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups |
| 5:25 AM • | TechCrunch: CB Insights: global fintech funding in 2021 jumped to a record $131.5B across 4,969 deals, up from $49B raised across 3,491 deals in 2020 |
| 4:15 AM • | Reuters: Investing app Acorns cancels its proposed $2.2B SPAC merger announced in May 2021, and plans to instead raise private capital at a higher pre-money valuation |
| 1:45 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: SaaS Labs, which offers business automation tools for sales and support teams at SMBs, raises a $42M Series B, and acquires CallPage and Atolia |
| 12:55 AM • | Farah Elbahrawy / Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia-based Lean Technologies, which enables companies to access bank data and make payments, raises $33M led by Sequoia Capital India |
| 12:05 AM • | Dave Muoio / FierceHealthcare: Big Health, which makes cognitive behavioral therapy apps Sleepio and Daylight to help users improve sleep, raises a $75M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 |
| 11:40 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Mantra Health, which provides virtual mental health care services to college and university students in the US, raises a $22M Series A led by VMG Partners |
| 11:25 PM • | Alexandra Wilson / Forbes: Spekit, which helps companies train remote employees by adapting and integrating their training manuals within apps that employees use, raises a $45M Series B |
| 11:15 PM • | Rebecca Torrence / FierceHealthcare: Lyra Health, a mental health service used by employees at companies like Uber and Morgan Stanley, raises a $235M Series F led by Dragoneer at a $5.85B valuation |
| 11:00 PM • | Ryne Hager / Android Police: Google launches a limited beta of Google Play Games for PC, which brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan |
| 10:15 PM • | Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more |
| 8:00 PM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Internal email: Google is creating a unit under its Labs division for blockchain and other distributed tech, led by engineering VP Shivakumar Venkataraman |
| 7:05 PM • | Sean Lyngaas / CNN: Red Cross says a cyberattack on a vendor for over 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies compromised the personal data of 515,000+ “highly vulnerable people” |
| 6:15 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: POAP, or Proof Of Attendance Protocol, which issues NFTs as “mementos” to attendees of real-world events, raises a $10M seed led by Archetype and Sapphire Sport |
| 5:25 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: AT&T begins its 5G C-band rollout in eight US metro areas, including Austin and Chicago, after delaying rollouts around airports due to safety concerns |
| 4:50 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it will transition organizations using G Suite legacy free edition to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription starting on July 1 |
| 4:10 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Autograph, an agency co-founded by Tom Brady that helps celebrities get involved with NFTs, raises a $170M Series B co-led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins |
| 3:30 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Clari, which helps companies generate more predictable revenue through big data insights, raises a $225M Series F led by Blackstone at a $2.6B valuation |
| 2:55 PM • | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Australian user research software startup Dovetail raises a $63M Series A led by Accel at a $700M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M+ |
| 2:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Crypto.com confirms it suffered a cybersecurity breach, says it reimbursed the ~400 affected customer accounts, and plans to share more in the coming days |
| 1:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram Subscriptions launches as an alpha, initially letting 10 US creators offer their followers paid access to exclusive Instagram Live videos and Stories |
| 1:10 PM • | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Biden signs a memorandum expanding the NSA's role in protecting sensitive government networks, and mandating cybersecurity practices at DoD and spy agencies |
| 12:50 PM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Handshake, a diversity-focused recruitment network aimed at college students, raises a $200M Series F at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2021 |
| 11:50 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Filmhub, which lets filmmakers distribute their work to over 100 streaming channels, including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, raises a $6.8M seed led by a16z |
| 11:15 AM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: South Africa-based mobile games publisher Carry1st raises a $20M Series A extension led by a16z, the firm's first investment in an Africa-headquartered startup |
| 10:40 AM • | Emma Betuel / TechCrunch: Gale Healthcare, which matches nurses with available work shifts at hospitals or clinics, raises $60M from FTV Capital and says 40K nurses use its service |
| 9:55 AM • | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Ambient.ai, which uses AI to process live video footage from security cameras and alert users of breaches, raises $52M led by a16z |
| 9:50 AM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments grew 15.9% YoY to 342.8M units in 2021, below the 371.7M smartphones shipped in 2019 |
| 9:40 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous battery-powered rail vehicles, comes out of stealth, with a $49.55M Series A, bringing its total funding to $53.15M |
| 9:35 AM • | Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: iTrustCapital, which lets users with an individual retirement account invest in cryptocurrencies, raises a $125M Series A at a $1.3B+ post-money valuation |
| 9:25 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Wheel, which provides tools that let health providers and employers offer telehealth services, raises a $150M Series C, bringing its total funding to $216M |
| 9:15 AM • | Hannah Lang / Reuters: Revolut launches commission-free stock trading in the US, letting users trade shares of 1,100+ securities listed on the NYSE and the Nasdaq |
| 9:05 AM • | Carly Page / TechCrunch: Password management service 1Password raises a $620M Series C led by Iconiq Growth at a $6.8B valuation and says it now has 100K+ paying customers |
| 8:45 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Opera unveils Crypto Browser Project, a beta browser for Windows, Mac, and Android, with a crypto wallet, access to crypto/NFT exchanges, dApps, and more |
| 8:05 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Personetics, which helps incumbent banks compete with neobanks by personalizing their customer offerings, raises $85M led by Thoma Bravo |
| 7:30 AM • | Reuters: China denies reports that it plans to require large internet companies with 100M+ users or $1.58B+ in revenue to obtain an approval before making investments |
| 7:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Lattice, which builds workforce people management tools including for performance reviews and tracking career goals, raises a $175M Series F at a $3B valuation |
| 6:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer |
| 6:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Sony's stock fell 13% on Wednesday, its biggest drop since October 2008, wiping $20B off its valuation, after Microsoft announced its Activision Blizzard deal |
| 6:20 AM • | Clive Cookson / Financial Times: The Royal Society finds social media sites banning misleading content is ineffective and can drive misinformation to “harder-to-address corners of the internet” |
| 4:30 AM • | Keith Romer / New York Times: AI tools can generate an optimal poker strategy, balancing bluffing and playing it straight, which some professional players are using to augment their play |
| 2:55 AM • | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Kenya-based Copia Global, which uses proprietary logistics to offer middle- and low-income African users a mobile e-commerce service, raises a $50M Series C |
| 2:45 AM • | Aditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: BukuKas, an e-commerce enabler for SMBs that also makes a bookkeeping app, raises an $80M Series C led by Tiger Global and Sequoia India, and rebrands as Lummo |
| 2:35 AM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Pyxis One, which offers no-code AI models to companies for targeted marketing, raises a $100M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and renames itself to Pixis |
| 2:05 AM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Survey finds that 76% of Chinese citizens and 68% of Indians say they trust AI companies compared to only 35% in France, the UK, and the US |
| 12:45 AM • | CNBC: Apple and Google warn of harmful consequences to user privacy and security from two proposed Senate antitrust bills scheduled to be considered this week |
| 12:20 AM • | NBC News: Snapchat's friend recommendation feature will no longer suggest users under 18, unless they have a certain number of friends in common, to curb drug dealing |
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