​Vay, a German startup offering remote-controlled rental cars, will get an investment of up to $410M from Singaporean super-app company Grab.  

​Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficult to justify, given the broad range of victims — journalists, activists, and now political consultants — that have come forward.  

​Scribe Optimize is the startup’s next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful.  

​Amanda Kahlow has been quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1Mind.  

​Lenskart’s public listing stirred debate over the nearly $8 billion valuation set in its IPO.  

​Slow Ventures hosted a three-hour “Etiquette Finishing School” this week, covering topics like the perfect handshake, public speaking, and office decorum.  

​YouTube TV subscribers unhappy about going more than a week without ESPN, ABC, and other Disney networks will be getting a $20 credit that can be applied to their next billing statement.  

​It’s an important launch for Jeff Bezos’ space company, which is trying to prove its rockets can be re-used while delivering its first commercial payloads.