As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users

The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.

Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund

Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target. 

Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads

He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival “dishonest” and “authoritarian.”

Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features

Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There’s also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.

Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue

The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

What a16z is actually funding (and what it’s ignoring) when it comes to AI infra

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments, including Black Forest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal, and dozens of others.   a16z general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs — just valued at $11 billion) has a clear thesis on where the team is looking to… Continua a leggere What a16z is actually funding (and what it’s ignoring) when it comes to AI infra

Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.

Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.

Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta

Roblox’s highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation

ElevenLabs’ valuation has raised more than three times in the last 12 months.