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Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-...

23 January 2026

Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI  —  Famed artificial intelligence researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new startup called …

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Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation  —  Data analytics software company Databricks has landed $1.8 billion in fresh debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.

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Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Yueqi Yang / The Information:
Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings  —  Some of the world's biggest crypto exchanges are racing to let their customers trade crypto tokens that seek to track U.S. stocks …

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Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

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Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer  —  Oura Health Oy, the maker of popular smart rings, is working on a tender offer for existing investors at a discount to its latest funding round …

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Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens  —  Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps.  The company mentioned that it is not abandoning …

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Mews, which makes AI-powered hospitality management software, raised a $300M Series D led by EQT Growth at a $2.5B valuation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Mews, which makes AI-powered hospitality management software, raised a $300M Series D led by EQT Growth at a $2.5B valuation  —  The $300M Series D round will support Mews in scaling its AI-driven hospitality platform, expanding fintech capabilities, and accelerating growth across North America, Europe, and new markets.

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Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives  —  Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet  —  Wild things happen in the self-storage business.  —  In 2023, Matt Engfer was at back-to-back lien auctions in Texas.

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Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR  —  WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.

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Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (Financial Times)

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Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023  —  French group enjoys record year as more investors seek protection from hacking  —  Ledger has tapped bankers for an initial public offering …

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R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down  —  The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million …

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