Google invests nearly $350M in Walmart-owned Flipkart, Jio to buy $4.32B of telecom gear from Reliance Retail

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Google invests nearly $350M in Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart, as part of a ~$1B funding round led by Walmart, which invested $600M in 2023. - Link

Jio Financial unit to buy $4.32B of telecom gear from Reliance Retail. - Link

Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit could give new hope to ticketing startups. - Link

Google's AI search tool is producing wildly inaccurate and sometimes harmful answers. - Link

Amazon taps Finland’s IQM for its first EU quantum computing service. - Link

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E1952: David Weisburd, Mel Williams, Delian Asparouhov, and Jason Calacanis discuss the resurgence of top crypto funds, the idea of a "sophisticated investor test" for crypto, SEC regulation limitations, increased AI spending in 2024, GPT-4o demos, AI's economic impact, and the effects of immigration on startups and self-censorship in a free society. - Watch

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