Next Insurance gets scooped up by Munich Re for $2.6B

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

Germany’s Munich Re has signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6 billion, the firms announced on Thursday. Founded in 2016, Palo Alto-based Next Insurance is focused on providing insurance to small-to-medium-sized businesses. It was last valued at $2.5 billion in late 2023 when it raised $265 million. Next Insurance’s […]
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Who’s Elon Musk’s Biggest Fan? His Mom

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we tell you everything you need to know about Maye Musk.

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BlackRock’s head of digital assets says staking could be a ‘huge step change’ for ether ETFs

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

Appetite for ether ETFs has been tepid since their launch last July, but that could change, according to Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock.

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EU Cracks Down on Apple for Anti-Competitive Behavior – Here’s What Apple Told Us in Response

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

A spokesperson for Apple also told TechRepublic that the European Commission’s decision will “… wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple’s ability to innovate for users in Europe.”

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Gmail’s new AI search now sorts emails by relevance instead of chronological order 

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

Google is rolling out a new Gmail update that is designed to help you find the email you’re looking for more quickly. The company announced on Thursday that it will now use AI to consider factors like recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts when surfacing emails based on your search query. Up until now, Gmail […]
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CoreWeave prices its IPO to raise at least $2.2 billion. And now the games begin.

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

CoreWeave said on Wednesday that it hopes to sell its initial public shares between $47 and $55 per share, putting the money it may raise between about $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion. Word on the street is that CoreWeave wanted to raise at least $3 billion and possibly over $4 billion. But price range announcements […]
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Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla says it will fix the sticky issue—which could cause panels to detach from trucks while driving—with a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”

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Is Google Rigging Search? EU’s Preliminary Findings Are In

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

The European Commission also raised concerns about Alphabet’s “steering rules” in Google Play.

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Rerun’s open-source AI platform for robots, drones and cars revs up with $17M seed

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

As Generative AI moves increasingly into the physical world through robotics, vehicles and drones, the need to map cloud-based AIs to real-world environments can lead to a huge mismatch. Rerun, a Stockholm-based dev tools startup, which builds a data stack for this emergent kind of “Physical AI”, has secured $17 million in seed funding to […]
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Bluesky makes it easier for publishers to track referrals

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Techme101

Social network Bluesky, an open source X rival, has made a change that will allow publishers to better track the referral traffic originating from posts on its platform. According to a comment from Bluesky employee Emily Liu, the company is now sending referral traffic through Bluesky’s “go” subdomain to make it easier for publishers to […]
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