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Capital One acquires Brex for steep discount to its peak valuation, but early believers are laughing all the way to the bank

Capital One acquires Brex for steep discount to its peak valuation, but early believers are laughing all the way to the bank

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

There’s a feeling of schadenfreude in Silicon Valley when a unicorn stumbles. So when the WSJ broke the news Thursday afternoon that Capital One will acquire Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock (Capital One issued an official release confirming the details 30...
Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits B valuation

Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. The round, which comes 10 months after LiveKit’s previous fundraise, was led by Index Ventures...
Inference startup Inferact lands 0M to commercialize vLLM

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed...
Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

It’s been nearly two years since Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted AI would replace knowledge work — the white-collar jobs held by lawyers, investment bankers, librarians, accountants, IT, and others. But despite the huge progress made by foundation models, the...
Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files

Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant said in a post on X around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a “portion of service...
Ring is adding a new content verification feature to videos

Ring is adding a new content verification feature to videos

by News Feed Editor | Jan 22, 2026 | Technology

It’s going to be more difficult to fake or manipulate Ring camera video footage going forward. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned device maker introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature that will allow anyone to determine whether a video has been altered in...
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