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Techmeme, citing Barron’s Online, says Pinterest forecast Q4 revenue below estimates; shares fell at least 8% after hours.
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Business Insider reports Spark Capital led an Anthropic funding round in spring 2023 and now holds more than 1%.
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Business Insider's Katie Roof reports early talks and says Cognition announced a $48 billion round weeks earlier.
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Kalshi says the filing is due at 9 a.m. EST; a separate post also expects it on October 26.
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Co-founder Dennis Crowley faults Foursquare’s final leadership but accepts partial responsibility for how it ended.
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CNBC reports Braze Class A shareholders would receive $47.50 per share in cash under the agreement.
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Katie Roof said she was interviewing Chambers about mergers and acquisitions strategy.
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A user raises the question while quoting another post, without naming a particular company or deal.
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A user said it felt like half the replies on any given post were crypto bots, worse than ever.
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In Business Insider’s VC Insider, Katie Roof says the tally is the highest since 2021 if SPACs count.
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A post predicts OpenAI will reach a trillion-dollar valuation after the round.
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A post uses 'decacorn' for $10 billion and 'centicorn' for $100 billion to set up the question.
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A user says tech weeks bring other cities’ industries together and spotlight regional startups and talent.
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A reporter says she's extra careful reporting financials now, noting that a lot of AI revenue isn't actually recurring.
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A post says Decagon hired a bank to evaluate inbound interest but could raise funding instead.
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TechCrunch reports the deal would take Bumble private after years of declining subscriber numbers and falling revenue.
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A user says they broke Bumble's going-public news in 2020 and asks if dating apps peaked during the pandemic.
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In reply to a user's question, Grok said it was built by xAI and called superintelligence a long-term mission.
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Techmeme relays Trump’s claim that ‘Super Intelligence’ is the ‘highly accepted’ and ‘more accurate’ term.
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Axios reports the grid plans to pool capacity from labs and cloud providers, allocating it through a shared scheduler.