Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jev-fervor-leads-talk-big-valuation-boo…
"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
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9 Vulnerable Moments in the Life of a Bagged Salad
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/20/well/eat/bagged-lettuce-salad-cyclospora-e-coli.html?unlocked_article_code=1.…
Carnegie China: China passed the US as the top destination for elite AI talent in 2025, rising from 2022's 27.1% share to 40.6%; the US fell from 46.4% to 34.2% (Claudia Chong/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/china-leads-u-s-top…
Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/from-mit-research-to-1-5…
Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/google-tests-letting…
Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/tencent-…