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• Apple brings back card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after a four-year hiatus — TechCrunch - 16:21
• Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales — TechCrunch - 15:32
• Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created — TechCrunch - 15:22
• There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend — Ars Technica - 15:15
• Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year — TechCrunch - 14:43
• UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services — Ars Technica - 14:17
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• Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal — Ars Technica - 11:30

Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, secured **$150M in funding from Meituan and Tencent, pushing its valuation to $1B**.

• Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent — TechCrunch -

Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics company, is going public via SPAC, with its CEO tempering expectations for immediate consumer adoption.

• This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon — TechCrunch -