UK-based BVNK, a stablecoin infra startup with ~$40M in annualized revenue, raised a $50M Series B led by Haun Ventures; a source said it values BVNK at ~$750M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Leo Schwartz / Fortune: UK-based BVNK, a stablecoin infra startup with ~$40M in annualized revenue, raised a $50M Series B led by Haun Ventures; a
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Justin Sun’s BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching
Google releases its new flagship model Gemini 2.0 and plans to test it in search and AI overviews, saying 2.0 makes "it possible to build agents that can think" (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Google releases its new flagship model Gemini 2.0 and plans to test it in search and AI overviews, saying 2.0 makes “it possible to
Sources: Apple is working with Sony to add support for PlayStation VR2 controllers in visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K units of the Vision Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working with Sony to add support for PlayStation VR2 controllers in visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K
Sources: Meta is shifting part of the development and design of MR headsets to Chinese manufacturer Goertek and moving half of production to Vietnam from China (The Information)
The Information: Sources: Meta is shifting part of the development and design of MR headsets to Chinese manufacturer Goertek and moving half of production to
Super Micro says an external review by a special committee of its board and external counsel found no evidence of wrongdoing, and plans to appoint a new CFO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Super Micro says an external review by a special committee of its board and external counsel found no evidence of wrongdoing, and plans to
Sources: European regulators rebuked Wise in 2022 after finding it lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers, forcing it into remediation (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)
Akila Quinio / Financial Times: Sources: European regulators rebuked Wise in 2022 after finding it lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers,
/dev/agents, which plans to build a cloud-based OS for AI agents that can work across phones, laptops, and cars, raised $56M, a source says at a $500M valuation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: /dev/agents, which plans to build a cloud-based OS for AI agents that can work across phones, laptops, and cars, raised $56M,
Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Victoria Song / The Verge: Strava’s new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor
