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Snap Q1 earnings report 2025
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty ImagesSnap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but…
Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages
Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to…
PayPal (PYPL) Q1 earnings
CEO of PayPal Alex Chriss speaks during the Semafor 2025 World Economy Summit at Conrad Washington on April 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesPayPal reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter, but the…
Are EWOR fellowships the real project Europe is looking for?
Supporting super-early stage entrepreneurs in Europe seems to be suddenly in vogue. Back in March, “Project Europe” was launched to great fanfare by podcaster and VC Harry Stebbings with a small $10 million fund to back founders aged…
Amazon launches first Kuiper satellites in bid to take on Starlink
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is on the launch pad carrying Amazon's Project Kuiper internet network satellites, which are expected to eventually rival Elon Musk's Starlink system, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in…
IBM to boost U.S. computer manufacturing with $150 billion spend
Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. Christopher Pike |…
UK fintech Sprive closes $7.3M round to facilitate mortgage overpayments
Most mortgage lenders would rather people didn’t pay off their mortgages early. After all, that’s that’s how they make their money. Indeed, overpayment is positively discouraged and sometimes even penalized. What if there were a…
Trump meme coin insiders to wait additional 90 days before selling
A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin token to mark the cryptocurrency reaching over $100,000 displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong, China, on in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. Justin…
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying…
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built an impressive resume early on…
SEC Chair Atkins says crypto innovation ‘been stifled’ at roundtable
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins speaks to reporters after giving opening remarks at a roundtable with the SEC's Crypto Task Force at the Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters on April 25, 2025 in…
Trump’s memecoin dinner contest earns insiders $900,000 in two days
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and his allies have raked in nearly $900,000 in trading fees over the past two days from the president's $TRUMP cryptocurrency token, according to Chainalysis, a blockchain data company. The surge came…
Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize
Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort.…
Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings in talks to raise $20 billion
The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesElon Musk's xAI Holdings is in…
The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, a pretty incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time to Get Real, she offers readers something even more valuable: a blunt look at the messy realities of leadership.…
How TikTok’s rise sparked a short-form video race
TikTok's grip on the short-form video market is tightening, and the world's biggest tech platforms are racing to catch up.Since launching globally in 2016, ByteDance-owned TikTok has amassed over 1.12 billion monthly active users…
Pony.ai teams up with Tencent for robotaxi services on WeChat, other apps
A Pony.ai autonomous car.Pony.aiChinese start-up Pony.ai said Friday it will develop autonomous driving technology in partnership with Tencent Cloud and offer robotaxi services on tech giant Tencent's WeChat and other applications.The…
Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever
Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” If…
Trump dinner for meme coin prompts senators to demand ethics probe
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren are warning that President Donald Trump's private dinner with holders of his meme coin may constitute "pay to play" corruption, and are calling…