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As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users

As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users

Snap is on a mission to diversify its revenue sources—moving from a business model in which it largely chases ad…
Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund

Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund

Europe invests billions into early-stage climate startups, only to watch too many fail at Series B, according to a recent…
Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Alphabet declined to answer one of its investors buring questions about Google’s AI deal with Apple on Wednesday’s fourth-quarter earnings…
Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users (MAUs), according to the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings. This…
Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Starbase, the company town that Elon Musk’s SpaceX created in South Texas, is forming its own police squad. The city’s…
Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman (X): First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder…
A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest,…
Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who…
From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models A common anti-pattern is to give the model a…