Figure’s IPO filing marks Mike Cagney’s return to public markets
Figure Technology, a seven-year-old blockchain-based lending company, has filed a registration statement with the SEC for an IPO of its Class A common stock. The filing offers a chance at vindication for Figure co-founder Mike Cagney.
Read moreConnecting partial sums
Today’s exponential sum, like all the exponential sums on the site, is formed by drawing a line between consecutive partial sums of a series involving complex exponentials. The exponential sum page makes an image each day by putting the day’s month, day, and year into a formula. Here’s today’s image
Read moreAI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees
Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product.
Read moreEight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech
The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.
Read moreSpotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists
The new options are designed to appeal to playlist experts and other music fans, who have collectively created nearly 9 billion playlists on Spotify's platform to date.
Read moreUK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Over the past few months,
Read moreOpenAI launches a sub $5 ChatGPT plan in India
This plan will offer 10x more messages and image generation than the free tier, among other benefits.
Read moreSoftBank makes $2B investment in Intel
SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel common stock.
Read moreAllianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers
Data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned notified 1.1 million customers of a July data breach, a number not previously reported.
Read moreX’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue
X is struggling on Android with installs down by 49% year-over-year as of June 2025.
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