Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure
Amazon is investing $233M in its India business to expand operations infrastructure, build new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety.
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Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined
Bluesky’s automated impersonation detection system took down JD Vance’s new account, but it was restored soon after.
SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
It’s the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired
No, Andreessen Horowitz didn’t post that crypto scam tweet
If it sounds too good to be true — like a VC giving away valuable assets — it isn’t true.
New code in Spotify’s app references the long-awaited ‘lossless’ tier
Newly added references in the music app’s code suggest the lossless service is at least still under development and could even be getting closer to launch.
‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn
Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped
Six-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
In Base44’s six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.
Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.