Tech resilience, breakout startups, and banking reinvented: The big conversations at StrictlyVC London in May

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April 23, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · David Wiggins

The US doesn’t refine cobalt — this startup wants to change that

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April 23, 2025 · 3 min · 578 words · Gwendolyn Bell

Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up

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April 23, 2025 · 3 min · 508 words · Matthew Miller

Xprize Carbon awarded to a dirt-simple carbon-removal technology

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April 23, 2025 · 5 min · 857 words · Gary Burgess

Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmers

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April 22, 2025 · 5 min · 935 words · Timothy Kerr

Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system

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April 22, 2025 · 9 min · 1730 words · Tonya Lopez

Crowdsourced AI benchmarks have serious flaws, some experts say

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April 22, 2025 · 5 min · 976 words · Julia Richmond

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M to help home services unlock call center revenue with AI

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April 22, 2025 · 4 min · 821 words · Edward Ho

India’s EV startup Ather cuts IPO size to $308M, seeking $1.4B post-money valuation

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April 22, 2025 · 3 min · 563 words · Timothy Long

Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI

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April 22, 2025 · 6 min · 1072 words · Victoria Hendricks

Rivian elects Cohere’s CEO to its board in latest signal the EV maker is bullish on AI

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April 22, 2025 · 3 min · 492 words · Joshua Gilbert

Social media is not wholly terrible for teen mental health, study says

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April 22, 2025 · 3 min · 558 words · Kenneth Warren

Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear

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April 22, 2025 · 5 min · 989 words · Lee Lewis