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Indian fintech Jar turns cash flow positive
<p>Indian fintech Jar has turned cash flow positive, an executive at the Tiger Global-backed startup confirmed on Wednesday. The three-year-old startup, which offers savings and investment services to consumers, achieved the milestone while still growing by more than 10 times last year, according to an investor note seen by TechCrunch. The profitability push comes as […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Vertice bags $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform
<p>Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize an area where businesses are sinking hundreds of billions of dollars annually: software and cloud spend. The London-based startup’s business has grown 13x in the three years since its inception (similar […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Neutral
Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users
<p>Truecaller for iOS has been updated with live caller ID support for its premium iPhone users.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
<p>President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. Trump announced the news in a Truth Social post, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht’s mother and the Libertarian movement. In 2015, a federal […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok
<p>An unlikely group, including Mr Beast and Bench acquirer Employer.com, has submitted a bid to buy TikTok. </p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails
<p>A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The decision arises from a case Meta shareholders brought against Sandberg and another former Meta board member, Jeff Zients, late last year. The plaintiffs alleged that Sandberg and Zients used personal […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
<p>Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. Coinciding with the announcement of Stargate, OpenAI’s massive new AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “right of first refusal” […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project
<p>OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, among others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. The joint venture, called the Stargate Project, will begin with a large data center project in Texas and eventually expand to other states. The companies expect to commit $100 billion […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI
<p>Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang has five recommendations for President Trump to keep the US ahead of China on AI.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Neutral
Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
<p>Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive