🤑 Cybersecurity incident: Money transfer giant MoneyGram has been experiencing an outage since last Friday. The company blamed the outage on a cybersecurity incident that it's working to resolve. Read more
👻 AI friendship: Snap is deepening its relationship with Google's Gemini AI, which will power generative AI experiences within Snapchat's My AI chatbot. When Snap first launched its chatbot, it was powered by ChatGPT. Read more
🎶 AI playlists: Spotify is expanding the availability of its AI playlists, which allow users to give the app a written prompt and receive a playlist in return. If you've used Spotify recently, you know that no matter what text you input, it's going to be a playlist of Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. Read more
🌝 Sequoia to the moon: Sequoia recently made its first investment into a space company since its bet on SpaceX. The recipient was Reflect Orbital, a company that is developing satellites that use mirrors to provide additional sunlight before dawn and after dusk by pinpointing sunlight to certain areas. Read more
👉 Reviewing a reviewer: YouTuber Marques Brownlee, known for his tech reviews, launched an app this week for people to browse and buy wallpapers made by artists. Amanda Silberling took a look at the app and wasn't super impressed. Read more
🏋️ Funds for fitness tech: EGYM, a maker of connected fitness equipment and software, raised $200 million in a round that values the company at more than $1.2 billion. Who said connected fitness was dead? Read more
👦 VC for kids: Explaining to adults what venture capitalists do can be challenging, but try explaining the asset class to children. Lux Capital general partner Deena Shakir ran into this problem with her own kids and wrote a children's book on the subject. Read more
