Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically
New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations. [vi...
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”
Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes. He was finishing code. — Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting wi...
Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+
Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion …
Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+
Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion …
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ
Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent's holding in US pivot — A Singapore fintech that was labelled a …
Coinbase confirms that it called off acquisition talks with UK-based stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK; a report had put the deal price at $1.5B to $2.5B
but faster, open, global rails. Lightning, Base, or something new? The smart money's picking its horse. Garrett Skrovina / @gskrovina : Coinbase reportedly walking away from BVNK a...
Bullish says it has received all $1.15B in capital raised from its IPO in stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and PYUSD, marking a first for US public markets
Mostly on Solana X: @ripple : Congrats to @Bullish on a successful IPO! 👏 A portion of the IPO proceeds were settled in $RLUSD, minted on the XRP Ledger. This is the first public l...
OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI
OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they...
Neobank Chime files for a Nasdaq IPO under CHYM, reporting active members up 23% YoY to 8.6M at the end of March 2025 and $251 average revenue per active member
Financial technology company Chime on Tuesday filed paperwork to go public on the Nasdaq. The company intends to file under the ticker symbol “CHYM.”
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T
Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion …
Brazil-based Matera, which provides instant payment and QR code payment software to financial institutions, raised $100M from Warburg Pincus to expand in the US
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Monzo alters its financial year and reports FY 2024 revenue of £880M, 9.7M customers, £11.2B in deposits, and a pretax profit of £15.4M, vs. a loss in FY 2023
- British digital bank now has almost 10 million customers — Monzo is opening a new office in Ireland to grow in the EU
TabaPay, which offers instant payment services, agrees to acquire assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, after Synapse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
We are excited to announce that TabaPay is acquiring the assets of Synapse. TabaPay, Inc. : TabaPay to Acquire the Assets of Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. X: Rohit Mittal / ...
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay
Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit fr...
Amsterdam-based payments giant Adyen reports H2 2023 net revenue up 23% YoY to €887M and processed volume up 29% YoY to €544.1B; ADYEN.AS jumps 22%+
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Revolut publishes delayed 2022 accounts, removing a hurdle in its UK banking license bid, reporting revenue up 45% YoY to £922.5M and a £25.4M pretax loss
- Auditors at BDO say issues for 2021 data have been resolved — Fintech reports pretax loss; sees $2 billion revenue this year