Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

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Reload announces a $2.275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.

Also, Mirai raised a $10 million seed to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.

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Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.

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SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.

Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund-- nearly double the size of its last fund.

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Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.

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Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

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The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster.

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Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.

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Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

Also, General Catalyst is in talks to lead Modal Labs' next round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.

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Complyance raised a $20 million Series A led by GV for its AI-native compliance platform.

Also, Integrate's round was led by FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan.

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