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Infinite Reality, which recently bought Napster, acquires AI customer support startup Touchcast for $500M in cash and stock, valuing Infinite Reality at $15.5B (Anne VanderMey/Bloomberg)
2025-04-16 13:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Data orchestration startup Hammerspace, which counts Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Palantir, and the DOD as clients, raised $100M, sources say at a $500M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
2025-04-16 12:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lyft acquires Hamburg-based taxi app FreeNow from BMW and Mercedes-Benz for €175M and says the combined operations will serve 50M+ riders annually (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
2025-04-16 13:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Medicare broker Chapter, which was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and uses AI to aggregate comprehensive plan data, raised $75M at a $1.5B valuation (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
2025-04-16 13:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Visa-backed African unicorn Moniepoint tackles remittances. But is it late to the game?
2025-04-16 09:16 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud
2025-04-16 10:17 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser
2025-04-16 08:16 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Cosmic Robotics’ robots could speed up solar panel deployments
2025-04-16 12:17 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation
2025-04-16 11:17 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
2025-04-15 17:12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
2025-04-16 14:18 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions
2025-04-16 04:15 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
2025-04-15 23:15 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
OpenAI is building a social network?
2025-04-15 22:14 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
How the U.S. Became a Science Superpower
2025-04-15 15:11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre (CVE Foundation)
2025-04-16 11:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales rose 29% YoY in March and 38% YoY in April's first 11 days, while Temu rose 46% and 60%, ahead of US tariffs (Bloomberg)
2025-04-16 11:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agents
2025-04-15 21:14 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Nvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US government
2025-04-15 23:15 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
How Musk manages his growing family: WSJ
2025-04-16 05:16 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
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