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Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’

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Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

X-energy stock pops 27% on first day of trading following upsized IPO

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

X launches stand-alone XChat app on iOS

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI

Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO

Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

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Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?

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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

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In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

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Porsche is adding an all-electric Cayenne coupe to its lineup

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Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney exit

Authorities arrest special forces soldier who allegedly made $400K on Polymarket bet involving Maduro operation

Redwood Materials loses COO amid layoffs, restructuring

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment

Instagram tests a new ‘Instants’ app for sharing disappearing photos

Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you

Trump’s pick to run US cyber agency CISA asks to drop out

Don’t stop hiring humans — stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan’s founder says

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’

Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

Bluesky now supports better-quality photos

Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of US employees

Meta is revamping its cross-app management system

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos

Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack

Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco

Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

Labor unrest at Samsung may worsen memory chip supply issues

Tesla drops Musk’s $29B ‘interim’ award after Delaware court restored larger pay package

WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags

AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls

Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI

India’s app market is booming — but global platforms are capturing most of the gains

Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English

Tesla just increased its spending plan to $25B — here’s where the money is going

Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern

Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true ‘Full Self-Driving’