Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets
Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies. The venture…
Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14.…
Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage
Meta is raising the prices of its virtual reality headsets due to the rising cost of memory chips,…
Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II
Gateway Capital Partners, the venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, announced the first close for its $25 million…
Nothing’s AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds
London-based hardware company Nothing is on track to release a pair of smart glasses next year, Bloomberg reported,…
Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering
Uber is buying Berlin-based startup Blacklane, which provides on-demand, black-car chauffeur services, as the ride-hail giant expands deeper…
Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption
Meta is launching Meta Small Business, a new company wide initiative focused on supporting entrepreneurship and driving AI…
Vibe-coding startup Lovable is on the hunt for acquisitions
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform last valued at $6.6 billion, is on the hunt for acquisitions. On Monday,…
Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last month
AI continues to dominate the venture world, per a new Crunchbase report. A record $189 billion of global…
Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them…
Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report
Apple Music is changing the way that record labels and distributors can flag AI-generated or AI-assisted content when…
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without…