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A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.

Startup funding shatters all records in Q1

The record quarterly fundraise largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market.

Apple releases security fix for older iPhones and iPads to protect against DarkSword attacks

The security update protects a raft of older iPhones and iPads from attacks linked to leaked hacking tools called DarkSword.

Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota

Meta's upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.

A New Way to Improve Your Chances

What is it worth to increase your chance of success? Or to reduce the chance of a costly failure? For most of modern history, we have not been able to answer those questions clearly. We have relied on averages: simple, clean, and often misleading. That is starting to change. A new class of tools, which […]This story continues at The Next Web

Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead

Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many of his peers in the global automotive industry have been slower to reach: the world has too many car factories, and building more of them […]This story continues at The Next Web

A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.

Mark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and told them that each one represented a billion dollars of Meta’s market capitalisation. There were, by that maths, roughly 1,400 sweets in the jar. The jury awarded his client six […]This story continues at The Next Web

Cameo partners with TikTok to boost popularity

Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.

Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks

Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since […]This story continues at The Next Web

WhatsApp notifies hundreds of users who installed a fake app made by government spyware maker

The Meta-owned company said it identified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a fake version of WhatsApp that was actually Italian-made spyware.

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try

The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half. 

OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […]This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceX files confidentially for IPO in mega listing potentially valued at $1.75 trillion, report says

The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed “Project Apex."

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for a grid that moved power […]This story continues at The Next Web

Aspect Aerospace Raises $2.4M To Develop Single-Board Satellites for Space-Based Environmental Monitoring

SOSV portfolio company Aspect Aerospace recently spoke with SpaceNews about two major milestones: a $1.9 million Direct-to-Phase II (D2P2) SBIR award from the U.S. Space Force and a $500,000 pre-seed investment from SOSV.Aspect Aerospace is rethinking how spacecraft are designed and deployed with its Single-Board Satellite (SBS).Instead of launching one conventional spacecraft, Aspect enables a “constellation in a box.” A single host satellite (about the size of a dorm fridge) can carry and depl

Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.

Six months after listing on the New York Stock Exchange at $40 a share, Klarna is trading at roughly $12. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company that once symbolised European fintech’s arrival on Wall Street has lost more than three quarters of its market value since its September debut. On Tuesday, it announced a $1.7 billion significant […]This story continues at The Next Web

Hasbro says it was hacked, and may take ‘several weeks’ to recover

The American toymaking giant noted that it was continuing to "implement measures to secure its business operations," suggesting that the hackers may still be in the company's systems.

More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middle lane of ring roads with traffic streaming past on both sides. Passengers trapped […]This story continues at The Next Web

Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together

StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.

The end of 'shadow AI' at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale

As generative AI matures from a novelty into a workplace staple, a new friction point has emerged: the "shadow AI" or "Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)" crisis. Much like the unsanctioned use of personal devices in years past, developers and knowledge workers are increasingly deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to manage their professional workflows."Our journey with Kilo Claw has been to make it easier and easier and more accessible to folks," says Kilo