Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku’s other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here’s a rundown of the changes:
Key Highlights Union Square Ventures (USV) led Pascal’s Series A, taking the prediction markets startup’s total funding to $15 million. Wintermute Ventures and DBA previously backed Pascal during its seed funding round. USV believes prediction markets are entering a new phase where trader-focused infrastructure can challenge existing leaders like Polymarket and Kalshi. Pascal:- It was…
Anthropic is taking another major step toward what could become one of the largest technology initial public offerings in history, with Wall Street banks beginning meetings between the artificial intelligence startup’s executives and potential investors ahead of a planned stock market debut. According to CNBC, bankers leading Anthropic’s IPO preparations have started arranging meetings with…
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Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and…
Prague-based VC Aspire11 has deployed the first €100 million of its €515 million fund of pension capital into a portfolio including Revolut, Databricks, VAST Data, Vinted, ElevenLabs and Baseten. The news came along with the announcement that former Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan investor Zaya Kadyrova has joined as co-founder. The fund was launched in late…