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In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 — Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense …
European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find "misfit" founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable — Hummingbird to put $800mn in funds to work after lucrative early bets on the likes of Kraken and Lovable
London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)
Elena Vardon / Wall Street Journal:
London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank — Revenue rose 46% last year as its customer base grew by around a third, the fintech said
Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM — SK Hynix Inc. plans to spend 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography chipmaking tools …
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more — Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.