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Filing: Reddit aims to raise up to $748M in its IPO, selling ~22M shares at $31 to $34 each, for a ~$6.5B valuation; Reddit set aside 1.76M shares for its users — - Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, according to a corporate filing on Monday.
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis — LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU privacy watchdog EDPS says the European Commission using Microsoft 365 breached privacy rules and the EU didn't implement adequate data transfer safeguards — The European Commission's use of Microsoft (MSFT.O) software breached EU privacy rules and the bloc's executive also failed …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open-source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription — Elon Musk said Monday he will open-source Grok, X's AI chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, days after suing OpenAI …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan sue Nvidia over allegedly using their work to train NeMo, saying the company “admitted” to using the books — Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used … | Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Looking back at “Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall”, a 2022 article by Gary Marcus, ridiculed by many, and how a paradigm shift, not just scale, is needed for AGI — Report card on an infamous paper. — Two years ago today I published my most infamous article:
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the designs Apple considered for its electric car, including one by Jony Ive that resembled a modern reincarnation of the 1950s Volkswagen microbus — The Apple car was a case study in what happens when corporate indecision, technological challenges and market realities combine …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Pavel Durov says Telegram has 900M users, hopes “to become profitable next year, if not this year”, was “offered $30B+ valuations” by VCs, and considers an IPO — In rare interview, Pavel Durov says secretive messaging app is making ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ from ads business| Elizabeth G. Dunn / New York Times: |
A profile of food delivery app Wonder, led by Diapers.com and Jet.com founder Marc Lore, who invested $200M+ and targets a $30B IPO in three to five years — Marc Lore, the entrepreneur behind Diapers.com and Jet.com, would like to disrupt food delivery. But he really wants to build a brand that actually lasts.
X: @dinvesting, @stevehiltonx, @profschleich, and @daniellejing
| Financial Times: |
Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker says the group has $8B to spend on M&A and AI investments, to help transform its businesses of supplying professional data — Media and data group will develop its own technology and scoop up targets with AI capabilities| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Yoel Roth, as he joins Match Group as head of trust and safety, 16 months after his public exit from Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition — Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk's Twitter. Now he's head of trust and safety … | Fortune: |
Sources detail a secret $100M investment in Kickstarter by a16z Crypto, letting staff and investors cash out, that led to its abandoned blockchain pivot in 2021 — In early December 2021, employees at the crowdfunding startup Kickstarter got news of a windfall: An investor group wanted to buy some of their shares.Sponsor Posts
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