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Collide Capital raises $95 M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (170+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II. The firm, founded in 2021, backs early-stage companies…...
This founder helped build Space X's most powerful rocket engine. Now he's building a 'fighter jet for orbit"
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (711+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into Space X's most powerful rocket engine. Now, he's trying to do the same thing at…...
Exclusive: Mariana Minerals taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (657+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. There is a lot of attention on domestic manufacturing in the United States these days. But for Turner Caldwell, who spent nearly a decade…...
A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (319+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong…...
Poke makes AI agents as easy as sending a text
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (1102+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Is Poke an Open Claw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you…...
Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions
17+ hour, 15+ min ago (399+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation…...
Wire Guard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (936+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Wire Guard, the major software project and VPN that underpins popular security software including Mullvad and others, has found itself locked out of a…...
AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and Open AI is an OK conflict
18+ hour, 6+ min ago (506+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon's recent $50 billion investment in Open AI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the…...
A self-driving car in Austin killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
18+ hour, 4+ min ago (235+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong…...
Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices
13+ hour, 42+ min ago (433+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012 " cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable to…...