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Spotify ended the third quarter with 306 million paying subscribers, up 9% from a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Thursday. Monthly active users rose 11% to 788 million. Revenue grew 16% to €4.97 billion, or 14% at constant exchange rates.
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DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China’s largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
NordVPN’s running its Black Friday sale, and its Prime / Ultimate Max plan with Cyber Insurance it’s a must for business travelers working on the move.
In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation, given enormous infrastructure commitments, safety concerns, customer concentration and competition from cheaper open-weight…
A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recent months, including one-time highfliers like Airtable, Headspace and Miro.
As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions and checking how AI summarizes their messaging.
Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed. Some stats on #php2shell.
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-source AI model that lets researchers ask questions about DNA in everyday language. Users paste in a genetic sequence, ask a question, and get an answer with an explanation.
Almost six in 10 people working in tech say AI has added to their workload rather than cutting it. That is the headline finding of Web Summit’s first State of the Industry report, published on Thursday. Some 59% said their workload had increased, 20% said it had fallen and 20% saw little change.
Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of onboard compute for the version that goes on general sale.
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