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• Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR

  The massive round is Anysphere's third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.

• Circle IPO soars, giving hope to more startups waiting to go public

  The USDC stablecoin issuer ended its first trading day at a 167% jump from its $31 IPO price.

• Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?

  Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign, but now the tech mogul is calling for Trump's impeachment.

• Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moon

  Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.

• Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own digital echo chambers

  Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own echo chambers.

• Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says

  Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on.

• Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more US cities

  Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

• Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics

  Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.

• Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too

  The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. 

• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’

  Anthropic's Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.