Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-behi…
Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/apple-nears-deal-to-acquire-ta…
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank is "going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin", Cognition's AI coding assistant, as Wall Street adopts AI (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-auto…
Airalo, which offers affordable eSIM roaming packages for travelers, raised $220M at a $1B valuation (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/11/2025/singapore-esim-startup-raises-220-million
Campus, which is building an online alternative to community colleges, hires Meta's ex-VP of AI Jerome Pesenti as its CTO, and acquires his company Sizzle AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/sam-altman-college-startup-campus-meta-ai.htm…
a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ben-horow…