AI | Crypto | Fundraising
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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Even Honda is pivoting to data centers
Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
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Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.
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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher’s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a “handset-like” AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
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Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Research appears to reveal a bug that could render the feature effectively useless.
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WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.
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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck
The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup’s failure.
