Sequence, a startup building a revenue platform for finance teams, has raised $20 million in a round led by 645 Ventures. The funding highlights the intense investor focus on the B2B fintech and CFO tech stack verticals.
Slope, an AI-powered lending startup, is launching an integrated line of credit for Amazon sellers. The program, backed by a JPMorgan Chase facility, offers real-time approvals directly through Seller Central for businesses with over $100,000 in annual revenue.
Apple is finally letting Android users cast Apple TV+ shows to their TVs. This move, long after the Android app launched, signals a serious push for wider subscriber growth outside its own devices.
Google is discontinuing its dark web report feature in early 2026. The company says user feedback indicated the tool, which scanned for personal info in data breaches, wasn’t providing helpful next steps. Users will need to delete their monitoring profiles before the February 16 shutdown.
Apple has seeded the first developer betas for its next round of point updates. The watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS 26.3 builds are now available for testing, with a likely public release by the end of January.
In a move that directly contrasts with Netflix’s recent decision, Apple has added Google Cast support to its Apple TV app for Android. This makes it much easier for Android users to stream Apple’s content to their TVs. The timing seems strategic as the streaming wars heat up.
Ford is making a massive strategic pivot away from pure electric vehicles. The automaker will focus on hybrids and repurpose battery plants for energy storage after its EV unit lost over $12 billion.
Repsense, a data analytics startup whose Havel platform is used by NATO, has closed a €2 million Seed round. The funding will boost its capabilities in detecting and predicting information threats across social and traditional media.
An early engineering sample of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra 7 365 chip has been spotted on Geekbench. The results show it performing worse than the current-gen Core Ultra 7 268V. This could change before launch, but it’s a surprising first look.
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The move comes months after Amazon abandoned its planned $1.7 billion acquisition of the company, a deal former CEO Colin Angle called its “most viable path” to compete.
