Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech

The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.

Spotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists

The new options are designed to appeal to playlist experts and other music fans, who have collectively created nearly 9 billion playlists on Spotify’s platform to date.

Figure’s IPO filing marks Mike Cagney’s return to public markets

Figure Technology, a seven-year-old blockchain-based lending company, has filed a registration statement with the SEC for an IPO of its Class A common stock. The filing offers a chance at vindication for Figure co-founder Mike Cagney.

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product.

Nvidia said to be developing new, more powerful AI chip for sale in China

Nvidia is apparently putting together a new AI chip meant for sale in China that’s half as powerful as its flagship B300 Blackwell GPU. The new chip would be more powerful than the H20 GPUs the company is currently allowed to sell in the country.

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on their campus.

‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into believing that “a secret global cabal” controls the world.

Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell

Paradigm raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it’s AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public.

Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell

Paradigm raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it’s AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public.

Linktree goes dark in India — and the company isn’t sure why

Linktree is “investigating” an issue that has made its link-in-bio platform inaccessible in India for several days.