Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal: The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024. Read More |
RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing: A new system called Real Simple Licensing would allow AI companies to license training data at a massive scale — if they're willing to pay for it. Read More |
Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming: Spotify is finally launching lossless music streaming support after consumers demanded it for years. Read More |
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After selling to Spotify, Anchor's co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning: Oboe is a new AI-powered learning platform that lets you create personalized courses on any topic with a prompt. Read More |
Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen: TwinMind, available on Android and iOS, passively captures background audio to gain context and deliver on-the-go summaries. Read More |
Google's former security leads raise $13M to fight email threats before they reach you: The startup is using real-time AI agents that inspect, analyze, and neutralize email threats. Read More |
Robinhood embraces copy trading after warning competitors about regulatory risks: Roughly nine months after suggesting that a young copy trading platform could only operate because it flew "under the radar" of regulators, Robinhood has announced its own entry into the space with "Robinhood Social," a new feature that will allow users to follow and manually replicate the trades of prominent investors. Read More |
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This app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic: Clyx is social platform that helps users find IRL community events to join. Read More |
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