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Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation

Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion,

TECH

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany

OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT maker plans to open

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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon Valley by storm with

TECH

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption

On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, e-commerce company Shopify

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Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B

Rapyd Financial Network is looking to raise $300 million in a new funding round that would value the global payments

CRYPTO

El Salvador Is Still Bitcoin Country

Follow Frank on X. El Salvador is still Bitcoin country, despite the fact that bitcoin is no longer legal tender

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Startups face the recurring dilemma of whether to partner

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it

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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A

MUSIC

Alabama Shakes Announce First Tour Since 2017

Alabama Shakes—the trio of vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, and bassist Zac Cockrell—played a surprise reunion set

TECH

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to