Journals

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces AI features for Google Chrome on Mac and Windows: “Help Me Write” coming next month, “Organize Similar Tabs”, and AI-generated custom themes  —  Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology… Read More »Google announces AI features for Google Chrome on Mac and Windows: “Help Me Write” coming next month, “Organize Similar Tabs”, and AI-generated custom themes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sources: Figma is refreshing employee equity packages and offering buyouts as the company resets its valuation to $10B from $20B, after the scrapped Adobe deal  —  CEO Dylan Field promised to refresh employee equity packages and… Read More »Sources: Figma is refreshing employee equity packages and offering buyouts as the company resets its valuation to $10B from $20B, after the scrapped Adobe deal (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Clerk, which helps app developers authenticate and manage users, raised a $30M Series B led by CRV, says it has ~1,300 paying customers managing 16M users  —  Clerk, a startup creating a suite of embeddable UIs,… Read More »Clerk, which helps app developers authenticate and manage users, raised a $30M Series B led by CRV, says it has ~1,300 paying customers managing 16M users (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden admin preps an EO that aims to restrict the flow of sensitive data through intermediaries, like data brokers, to foreign countries like China  —  – Concern about countries accessing US data through legal… Read More »Sources: the Biden admin preps an EO that aims to restrict the flow of sensitive data through intermediaries, like data brokers, to foreign countries like China (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

CNBC: Netflix buys the exclusive rights to WWE programs like Raw, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, Latin America, and more; filing: the 10-year deal is worth $5B+  —  – Netflix and TKO Group Holdings said Tuesday that the… Read More »Netflix buys the exclusive rights to WWE programs like Raw, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, Latin America, and more; filing: the 10-year deal is worth $5B+ (CNBC)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Silverfort, which provides identity threat protection tools, raised a $116M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, sources say at an “around” $1B valuation  —  Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes… Read More »Silverfort, which provides identity threat protection tools, raised a $116M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, sources say at an “around” $1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Advertising services are set to be exempt from EU’s DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough  —  – EU probe comes ahead of March roll-out of Digital Markets Act  —… Read More »Sources: Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Advertising services are set to be exempt from EU’s DMA, as an EU probe tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z  —  – Boomers shopped twice as much on app… Read More »Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z (Bloomberg)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners  —  Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution… Read More »Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: A bug in Ethereum’s Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum’s validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators  —  The lion’s share of Ethereum’s validators rely on the same… Read More »A bug in Ethereum’s Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum’s validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)