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Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% — Layoffs keep coming but there’s still a market for higher-grade talent to harness agents — It should be
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to $6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 — The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose Vapi to handle 100% of Ring calls — Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net revenue up 19% YoY to $2.5B — Wise Group Plc is making its trading debut in the US with a Nasdaq listing as the financial technology firm tries
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Bloomberg: How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world’s most expensive stocks. Source link
Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation — Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot Era has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by SF Express, as investors pour capital … Source link