Happy Tuesday.
Tech is acquisitionmaxxing today.
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Enjoy today's news.
SpaceX acquires Anysphere (maker of Cursor) for $60B, pairing Cursor’s coding data with SpaceXAI’s compute to improve frontier AI models.
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Meta’s Threads reaches 500 million monthly active users, adding new community features and feed controls to help people manage the conversations they see.
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IBM turns 115 today.
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Genesis AI unveils Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot built for real work in warehouses, kitchens, and labs.
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Nous Research, the AI lab behind Hermes agent, partners with Stripe to give agents payment abilities.
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1Password acquires Apono, adding time-limited access controls for sensitive systems used by employees, software, and AI agents.
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American Express buys TheFork from Tripadvisor for $700M, adding the European restaurant-booking platform to its dining network alongside Resy and Tock.
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Telegram gets temporarily blocked in India until June 22, after officials said cheating rackets used the app to spread leaked materials for a national medical college entrance exam.
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Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, allowing brands to advertise inside games like Madden and EA Sports FC.
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Nuvei acquires Payoneer for $2.75B, creating a payments platform for local and cross-border commerce across 190+ countries.
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Lenny Rachitsky interviews Zynga founder Mark Pincus on creating billion-player games, building consumer products people say “yes” to, and his new book, Life at the Speed of Play.
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New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea interviews Lightspeed partner Claire Zau on splitting time between investing and creator work, launching Lightwork, and explaining AI beyond tech Twitter.
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Ben Cera, founder of Polsia, launches a YouTube mini-series going behind the scenes of his $250M AI startup with 0 employees.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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