🔥5 New Unicorns Join The Board And 5 Exit in October
Five new unicorns joined Crunchbase’s Unicorn Board in October, spanning sectors like AI, energy, fintech, and robotics. Notable companies include AI coding platform Poolside and energy startup Pacific Fusion, with a collective valuation exceeding $7 billion. Meanwhile, five companies exited the board, contributing to the overall growth, driven by major funding rounds, including OpenAI's $6.6 billion raise.
🔥5 New Unicorns Join The Board And 5 Exit in October
Five new unicorns joined Crunchbase’s Unicorn Board in October, spanning sectors like AI, energy, fintech, and robotics. Notable companies include AI coding platform Poolside and energy startup Pacific Fusion, with a collective valuation exceeding $7 billion. Meanwhile, five companies exited the board, contributing to the overall growth, driven by major funding rounds, including OpenAI's $6.6 billion raise.
Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report.
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