​Spotify’s Daniel Ek just led a €600 million investment in Helsing, a four-year-old, Munich-based defense tech company that is now valued at €12 billion, according to the Financial Times. The deal makes it one of Europe’s most valuable privately held companies; it also highlights Europe’s scramble to build its own military muscle as the world grows messier and the U.S….

​Tinder launched a new Double Date feature, which allows users to team up with friends and chat with potential matches together.  

​OpenAI and Microsoft have an increasingly strained relationship, according to a recent WSJ report.  

​Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone.  

​Instagram is testing the ability for users to repost posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.  

​Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company’s terms of service or other policies.  

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​Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, is testing spoiler text. This is a nice quality-of-life upgrade on the user side, but it also helps Meta by encouraging more conversations about pop culture without people worrying about spoiling others.