The online gaming platform Roblox has been banned in Russia. Russian state media reports that the country’s communications agency cited the presence of LGBTQ content on the platform as a reason for the ban. Russia has laws designating public LGBTQ…
Is it time for MrBeast to hit the New York Stock Exchange? Three years ago, the idea of a YouTuber with a $1.5 billion valuation left some onlookers incredulous. Yet Beast Industries ended up raising at a $5 billion valuation…
Alan Dye, the design executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade, is leaving the company to join Meta. This news comes from a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This hire represents a significant move for Meta…
Is there any way for another AI coding tool to find a place in the hearts of startup founders? It must compete with established options like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub CoPilot, the many other AI-powered VSCode…
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy…
In early October, DualEntry, an AI enterprise resource planning startup, announced a $90 million Series A round led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures. This funding values the one-year-old business at $415 million. The company aims to replace legacy software like…
WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its debut in September. At the company’s annual State of the Word event in San Francisco, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg shared…
The Trump administration announced plans on Wednesday to lower fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the United States. With CEOs from Ford and Stellantis in attendance, President Donald Trump proposed rolling back fleet-wide fuel economy to…
Tonight at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some of the brightest minds building technologies of the future will explain what’s coming next. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and the lineup is truly exceptional. The series has traveled…
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. Defense Department. This contract is part of a larger $1.4 billion partnership with the U.S. Government and ReElement Technologies aimed at expanding the domestic supply…
