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Retro, a photo-sharing app for friends, lets you ‘time-travel’ through your camera roll

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Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app with roughly a million users, is adding a new feature that lets you time-travel through your old photo memories from your phone’s camera roll. While the app today offers a way to share photos of what’s happening during your week with a private group of friends, or create shared albums, […]

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Overview Energy wants to beam energy from space to existing solar farms

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Overview Energy emerged from stealth today with a plan to use the world’s solar panels as nighttime collectors of power beamed down from space. The startup plans to use large solar arrays in geosynchronous orbit — about 22,000 miles above the Earth where satellites match the planet’s rotation — to harvest sunlight. It will then

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Fal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B

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Fal, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has announced that it raised $140 million Series D led by Sequoia, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. The round, which was Fal’s third fundraise this year, valued the company at $4.5 billion, about three times what the

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Why Cursor’s CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won’t crush his startup

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Anysphere, the company that makes AI coding assistant darling Cursor, isn’t thinking about an IPO any time soon, its co-founder CEO Michael Truell said onstage Monday at Fortune’s AI Brainstorming conference. After reaching $1 billion in annualized revenue in November and raising $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation last month, Truell said his company

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Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

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After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch brand, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to always-on, always-listening AI

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SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value

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SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead an investment of over $1 billion at a $14 billion valuation in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational robotics model, Reuters reported. The nearly three-year-old startup was last valued at $4.7 billion in May when it raised $500 million in a round led by

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Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B ‘headline’ valuation

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Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, according to three people familiar with the deal. The funding round included different valuation tiers, these people said.  Although some equity was sold at a $1 billion valuation, a lower valuation

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