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Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March   —  Nirvana Insurance, an AI-based commercial insurance platform for the trucking industry, has raised a $100 million Series D round … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hzesgOu

Court Ruling Against Tesla Threatens to Put the Brakes on California Sales

The lawsuit filed by the Department of Motor Vehicles involved Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims. from CNET https://ift.tt/M46HJs2

Meta says it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)

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Ben Lang / Road to VR : Meta says it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets   —  Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market.  The company says it has shifted focus to … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BYI7lA5

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

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Financial Times : OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative   —  Former UK chancellor to lead start-up's effort to spread ‘democratic’ AI across the world  —  OpenAI has hired former UK chancellor George Osborne … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/gSM49Na

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired : Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs   —  As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ywr6DMc

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Dan Primack / Axios : Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M   —  - The deal was announced Monday morning without a price tag. … - Goldcast was founded as a virtual events company at around … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Os18laE

DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York   —  DoorDash Inc. is experimenting with a standalone artificial intelligence-powered app for users to find new restaurants, expanding its reach beyond its flagship food-delivery service. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/gwGUnVc