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A look at ElevenLabs, as ~50% of its $193M in trailing 12-month revenue now comes from corporates, like Cisco, and ~50% from YouTubers, podcasters, and authors (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Iain Martin / Forbes:
A look at ElevenLabs, as ~50% of its $193M in trailing 12-month revenue now comes from corporates, like Cisco, and ~50% from YouTubers, podcasters, and authors  —  ElevenLabs' computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother.  That's both a blessing—its 30 Under 30 alumni founders …

Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops  —  Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.

Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)

Simon Hunt / City A.M.:
Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023  —  Zipcar has reached the end of the road in the UK after its US owner pulled the plug on operations in the run …

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M  —  Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million …

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)

Ludwig Burger / Reuters:
Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities  —  A group of Swiss and German law enforcement agencies said on Monday they shut down cryptomixer.io, one of the largest platforms …