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Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M  —  Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via's IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company's IPO price …

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)

Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0:
AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures  —  Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round.  The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined …

Copenhagen-based Teton.ai, which offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and improve workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Plural (Anthony Vecchione/Mobi Health News)

Anthony Vecchione / Mobi Health News:
Copenhagen-based Teton.ai, which offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and improve workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Plural  —  The company is on track to be live in 10 U.S. states by the end of 2025.  —  Global  —  Copenhagen-based Teton.ai …

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:
Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally  —  AIsphere's PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year

The Long Walk ending explained: What's actually real in the Stephen King movie

Stephen King's 1979 novel The Long Walk was adapted by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, with a new ending — but is it real?