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What’s happening in tech • Stay informed with my weekly digest👇🏻

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Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab focused on design and ui

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SpaceX IPO now showing on Robinhood

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SpaceX targets IPO at $135 a share

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Market research firm AlphaSense raises a new $350M at a $7.5B valuation

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For context, it’s hitting over $4B total annualized revenue this year

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Robinhood reaches $400M annualized revenue for its prediction markets business

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Uber ($UBER) is partnering with WeRide to launch robotaxis in Madrid later this year

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Anthropic files for IPO later this year at a $965B valuation

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Curious to know why AI startups seek outside help for fundraising?

Read more about it here: https://t.co/TVFzrExlVb

#investmentbank #aistartup #newsletter #ainews

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In today's 🔥 newsletter, we break down the earnings for tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, AMD, Coinbase, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, and more...

Check it out here 👇
https://t.co/P1tfMIEFSg

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TikTok’s AI spending is driving Microsoft’s booming AI business

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@SobkoYaroslav @beehiiv Wow! I am also trying to grow my newsletter, https://t.co/kD1A1Npk3r

Any tips you can share? :)

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@tye1337 Speaking of YT Shorts, check out the YT shorts i've been making surrounding AI/Tech news.

https://t.co/aR2hxUxzXP

I welcome any feedback!

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@AviSchiffmann I still can't believe they spent $1.8M on the domain name..🥲

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Midjourney 6.1 just dropped.

And people are already creating incredible images and videos using Gen-3 & Luma AI

10 wild examples:

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Full video here
https://t.co/vokxgBRPV7

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What does the disastrous CrowdStrike outage tell us about our society today??

As the world becomes more digital, it reminds us of the vulnerabilities in our interconnected world. It was a significant global event that emphasized today’s dependency on digital infrastructures 👇

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Stripe def seems like the right partner here to take their merchant of record to the next level

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Stripe acquired one of its payments competitors Lemon Squeezy for an undisclosed amount...

The most interesting part? 👇

Lemon Squeezy has just 13 employees and its CEO JR Farr said that since it launched in 2021, it's received many acquisition offers and Series A term sheets

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He even turned down a $50M Series A term sheet 🤯...

It's actually not entirely clear how much funding the company has right now, if any...

but it surpassed $1M ARR within 9 months of its public launch in 2021...

It went from idea to acquisition in under 3 years...