Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed
US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring lines between punditry and journalism and paving the way for lawmakers to become creators themselves (Makena Kelly/Wired)
Makena Kelly / Wired: US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring lines between punditry and journalism and paving the way for lawmakers to become
Source: Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over Microsoft's stake in the for-profit, use of OpenAI's IP, continued collection of 20% of OpenAI's revenue, and more (The Information)
The Information: Source: Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over Microsoft’s stake in the for-profit, use of OpenAI’s IP, continued collection of 20% of OpenAI’s revenue, and
Dutch tech investor Prosus plans to acquire online travel agency Despegar.com for $1.7B, or $19.50 per share, to expand in Latin America, closing in Q2 2025 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: Dutch tech investor Prosus plans to acquire online travel agency Despegar.com for $1.7B, or $19.50 per share, to expand in Latin
Italy's data regulator fines OpenAI €15M after its probe found that the startup processed users' personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal basis (Reuters)
Reuters: Italy’s data regulator fines OpenAI €15M after its probe found that the startup processed users’ personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal
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
