Crypto firm Gemini to pay over $1 billion back to customers in settlement
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has promised to return $1.1 billion to customers as part of a settlement it reached with New York’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Gemini will also have to pay $37 million to the NYDFS “for significant failures that threatened
Read moreVenus Williams brings her interior design skills to Palazzo, a new generative AI-powered platform
If you didn’t know legendary tennis player and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams had an eye for interior design, consider this your heads up. It’s been 20 years since she founded her interior design firm V Starr Interiors, and now Williams is entering the generative AI space with a
Read moreVibe helps small companies buy video ads on streaming services
As streaming apps and services are gradually showing more ads to viewers, adtech startup Vibe plans to help small businesses take advantage of that trend by letting them access that ad inventory with a self-serve ad platform like the ones small businesses use to run ads on Google’s or Meta’s
Read moreInspired Capital secures $330M fund to take venture capital ‘back to the studs’
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Read moreFigure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation
Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s raising more money than God. The Bay Area–based robotics firm has announced a $675 million Series B on a $2.6 billion valuation. The lineup of investors is equally impressive, including Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos
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Read moreThis ‘Amazon’s Choice’ video doorbell could let just about anyone spy on you
An “Aiwit” doorbell camera. There are many like it. | Image via Amazon Does your video doorbell look anything like the one in the picture? Perhaps you bought it for cheap at Amazon, Temu, Shein, Sears, or Walmart? Does it use the Aiwit app? Consumer Reports is reporting the security
Read moreHashtag Trending Feb.29- Google’s troubles with AI; New U.S. executive order to regulate data broker industry; Lockbit announces return
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