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India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato

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Rapido’s beta food delivery service has popped up in three key localities in Bengaluru before a broader rollout.

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Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale

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Monarch’s tractors were the only vehicles being built by Foxconn in Ohio after Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc., and IndiEV went bankrupt.

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

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Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

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Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

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David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI.

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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

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Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer.

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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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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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