$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups This morning on Equity, we have good news for crypto founders, notes on Akamai's $450M acquisition of Noname, and billion-dollar deals from Wiz and Wayve. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For ...

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$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups

This morning on Equity, not only do we have good news for crypto founders, we're also digging into Akamai spending $450 million for API securi...

Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it ra...

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Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt | TechCrunch

Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI

Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions.  “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where members h...

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Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate | TechCrunch

Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “You will

Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become part and parcel of major...

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Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40 million round | TechCrunch

Xtend, a drone company heavily involved with defense customers, has raised a new round of capital to expand its operations.

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it...

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The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point | TechCrunch

I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January.