August 2025 – Page 15

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

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Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year.

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Australian court finds Apple, Google abused app store market power

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Epic Games has just secured a win in its crusade against Apple and Google’s app store policies: The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ruled that Apple and Google’s engaged in anti-competitive conduct when it came to their respective app stores, ABC News reported.

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How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

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Nvidia’s research lab developed the technology that took the company from a video game GPU startup to a $4 trillion-dollar company.

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TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

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Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

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Pronto has raised $11 million in an all-equity Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital at a post-money valuation of $45 million.

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Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce

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Datumo began as an AI data labeling company and now wants to help businesses build safer AI with tools and data that enable testing, monitoring, and improving their models — without requiring technical expertise.

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Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

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This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make them a good founder.

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iOS 26 beta 6 adds new ringtones, snappy app launches, and more

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The new developer beta release, iOS 26 beta 6, adds new ringtones, faster app launches, and fixes the Camera swipe direction issues.

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Poshmark CEO and founder to step down

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After nearly 15 years, Manish Chandra will transition to being a member of the board of directors. Namsun Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed as his successor.

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US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang

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A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

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