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Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble — The feature is developed with Tether and was announced at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland.
We've compiled a list of investors that are pouring money into Southeast Asia’s software-as-a-service startups.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 — Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts …
Semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia’s homebase in Nijmegen – the biggest city in Gelderland, the Netherlands’ largest province – offers few clues that it sits in the eye of a storm that threatens to disrupt the global car industry’s supply chain. Dutch daily newspaper De Gelderlander, for example, featured more local stories including an explosion at a neighbourhood cannabis store, referred to as “coffeeshop”. There were no banner headlines to be found about talks in Brussels on Tuesday between...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) start-up Stellerus Technology aims to be the world’s first provider of satellite-enabled three-dimensional wind data to help wind power, transport and insurance firms boost revenues, cut costs and manage risks, according to its founders. Stellerus, founded in 2023 by the university’s academics, would leverage China’s cost competitiveness in satellite manufacturing to make global 3D wind data collection economically viable, said Su Hui, the...
Reliance will hold a 70% stake, while Meta’s subsidiary Facebook Overseas will own the remaining 30%.
The funding would finalize a US$41 billion round first announced in April.
Bloomberg: The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans — Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.
We've compiled a list of investors pouring money into India’s AI startups.
Ferrari began accepting cryptocurrency payments for car purchases in the US in 2023 and later extended the service to Europe.
The collaboration will allow government employees in Japan to access Gennai, a new tool built with OpenAI’s technology.
Chris Metinko / Axios: Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors, raised a $30.75M Series B
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models — Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI. … However, one user complained on ResetEra forums …
Christopher Marquis / Forbes: Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital — Climate change is no longer a remote future threat. Rising temperatures, more extreme weather, and worsening fire seasons …
Chris Metinko / Axios: Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M — Roller, a venue management platform developer, raised a $50 million round led by Insight Partners, co-founder and CEO Luke Finn tells Axios Pro.
Katrina Bianca Cuaresma / DealStreetAsia: Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M+, bringing its total funding to $130M+, and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools — Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus has raised over $70 million in fresh funding to finance expansion and AI-driven capabilities …
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Valida Pau / The Information: Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 — Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Aigerim Turgunbaeva / Reuters: Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance's BNB token — Kyrgyzstan has launched a national stablecoin and a central bank digital currency in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Binance, President Sadyr Japarov said on Saturday.
The pandemic and rise of AI are part of one continuous transformation in the way we work, and it’s not over yet, says Microsoft’s Colette Stallbaumer, author of the new book "WorkLab: Five years that shook the business world, and sparked an AI-first future." Read More
31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and illegal sports betting.…
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Alex Scott / Chemical & Engineering News: Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $50M+ Series B — Scottish firm will use the cash to advance its AI platform and robotics system to rapidly make novel molecules
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RT Watson / The Block: Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating — - Pave Bank raised $39 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Tether Investments, Wintermute, and others.
Will Oremus / Washington Post: A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it — Larry Sanger's long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the world's dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.
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Amid a geopolitical storm over its Dutch chip unit Nexperia, Wingtech Technology delivered stellar third-quarter earnings while warning of potential future disruptions. The impact of the power struggle at Nexperia, the biggest revenue earner for Wingtech, was “difficult to quantify precisely”, the Chinese company said in its filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange outside trading hours on Friday evening. “Should control over Nexperia fail to be restored by the end of 2025, the company may face the...
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The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks — OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …
Endowus, Nuclide Tongchuang Technology Co., CraftBank, and others raised funds this week.
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CTech: Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M — The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum.
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, according to a House of Commons committee.…
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Beijing’s recent moves to rein in mainland Chinese firms’ stablecoin and tokenisation initiatives in Hong Kong may have rattled the city’s crypto sector, but the Chinese government’s increased openness to digital assets overall had not changed amid competition with the US, experts said. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) recently summoned a number of mainland firms under its jurisdiction, asking them to wait for its instructions before moving forward with their stablecoin initiatives in Hong...
Forbes: A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025 — The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.
The project, led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, uses iris-scanning devices called "orbs" to verify users in exchange for its WLD token.