Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it…
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The startups rolling out of Europe’s early-stage micromobility scene
Early-stage micromobility has shifted over the last few years. The cowboy antics of e-scooter companies causing chaos in a bid…
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Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid
If becoming a spy sounds like an exciting way to live like a le Carré character, let this newest affidavit…
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The new math: Why seed investors are selling their winners earlier
Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago — $66 million for Precursor Ventures — when one…
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2…
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Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises $15M from a16z
Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised a $15…
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TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up…
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Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried…
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Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others, the…
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Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO
Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot provider with tens of millions of monthly active users, announced on Friday that Karandeep Anand,…
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