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Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B

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Upwind, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup, is raising $100M at a $850M-$900M valuation, say sources

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VCs on how to ‘survive and thrive’ after a down round

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Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio

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Benchmark, Index, others are in a wild unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere, maker of Cursor

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Block scales back TIDAL investment and shutters TBD in favor of Bitcoin mining

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ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes

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FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information

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How AI startup Conflixis is protecting hospitals from corrupt doctors

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Large funds are too invested in the energy transition to turn back now

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Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing

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Monarch Tractor lays off 10% in restructuring towards software and licensing AV tech

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Startup land wasn’t as quiet this week as you might’ve expected

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