Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital

ChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searches

LatAm startups are winning big in Startup Battlefield

Last day to apply to speak at All Stage

Netflix is revamping search with AI to improve discovery

OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B

Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces and $4.3M from a tweet

Ramp is trying to get the US government as a customer after seeing a tweet from DOGE

Carbon removal startup Holocene bought by oil and gas giant Occidental

Former Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fund

AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company

Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed ‘dangerous and dumb’

Instagram’s new Blend feature creates a custom reels feed for you and your friends

Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far

Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok slowed Meta’s growth

Wasp’s platform is the glue that holds web dev apps together

Smashing, the reading curation app by Goodreads’ founder, shuts down

xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok

Zoom restores service after an hours-long outage

Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban

Rippling wants UK fintech Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged “spy”

Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS

India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe

Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads

As Deezer approaches profitability, it rolls out a custom algorithm and other new features

Boost your brand at Sessions: AI with an exhibit table

Lyft to buy taxi app FREENOW for $197M to enter Europe

A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics

Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation

Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud

Visa-backed African unicorn Moniepoint tackles remittances. But is it late to the game?

Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser

TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, is joining our StrictlyVC London lineup

How Musk manages his growing family: WSJ

Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

Nvidia Says U.S. Will Restrict Sales of More of Its A.I. Chips to China

Nvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US government

Why Antitrust Breakups of Google and Meta Could Be Difficult

Figma ignores the fear, files paperwork for an IPO

Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agents

OpenAI may ‘adjust’ its safeguards if rivals release ‘high-risk’ AI

OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

Anthropic’s Claude can now read your Gmail

Trump Tariffs Could Raise iPhone Prices, But Affordable Options Remain

Lucid Gravity First Drive: An electric SUV that doesn’t make compromises

Fusion power has a fuel problem; Hexium has a laser-powered solution

Apple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user data