🏦 Founders are not pleased: Digital banking startup Mercury is no longer serving customers in certain countries, including Ukraine, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Read more
🚗 Say goodbye: GM self-driving car subsidiary Cruise is scrapping plans to build the Origin and will instead use the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt in its operations. Read more
🤖 Robot riot: Vayu Robotics sees potential in getting rid of LiDAR to make delivery robotics cheaper and more scalable. Read more
🔥 New tools: Adobe's new Firefly tools for Photoshop and Illustrator let creative workers describe what they want with brief prompts and receive AI-generated textures or images that could otherwise take hours to create. Read more
🎉 Just an intimate gathering: Event startup Posh is focusing on live events of up to a few hundred people where you might know a friend, a friend of a friend, and a person you met at some party. Read more
📈 SPAC alert: Cyabra plans to merge with special purpose acquisition company Trailblazer Merger Corporation I and list on the NASDA. The Tel Aviv-based startup helps public and private organizations detect and fight mis- and disinformation campaigns and counts Warner Media and Elon Musk among its clients. Read more
⚙️ Humanoids are hot: Robotics startup Mytra is jumping into this highly competitive space in a bid to rethink warehouse automation. Read more
🛒 Supermarket savings: Flashfood, an app that provides people access to discounted food close to its best-by date, added independently owned grocery stores to the app, enabling a larger number of shoppers to buy budget-friendly groceries. Read more
