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BUMBLE IN ADVANCED TALKS TO GO PRIVATE AT $1B VALUATION

Bumble is reportedly in advanced talks to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valuing the dating-app company at roughly $1 billion, well above its $389 million market value before the report. The potential take-private comes as Bumble struggles with falling paying users, declining revenue, and weaker engagement among younger consumers, highlighting broader pressure across the online dating sector.

RAMP INTRODUCES GLASS THAT MAKES COMPANY KNOWLEDGE REUSABLE ACROSS AI WORKFLOWS

Ramp's Glass is an internal AI workspace designed to capture and reuse the best prompts, workflows, context, and operating knowledge created across the company instead of leaving them trapped in individual chat histories. Glass connects to systems like Slack, Notion, Linear, and Gong, supports shared sessions and reusable skills, routes work across models, and tracks cost by project. Ramp says the system cut its own AI bill by 30% while scaling workflows such as feature-request capture from roughly 300 to 20,000 per month.

RAMP'S SALES PLAYBOOK: MAX FREEMAN'S HIRING SECRETS

Ramp SVP of Sales Max Freeman describes GTM as an operating system built around talent density, rigorous hiring, and automation. Ramp recruits unconventional sellers such as investment bankers and reps from high-growth, low-NPS companies, pairs that talent with structured onboarding and quota design, and uses internal engineering tools to automate prospect research, outbound, and pipeline workflows so reps spend more time selling.

MARK ZUCKERBERG AND ALEXANDR WANG DISCUSS META'S MUSE WONDER AND THE FUTURE OF AI (134 MINUTE PODCAST)

John Collison sat down with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang to discuss Meta's new frontier model, Muse Wonder, and the broader race to build leading AI systems. The conversation spans model development, Meta's willingness to invest $100 billion, agentic commerce, OpenRouter, new computing interfaces beyond smartphones, and Zuckerberg's view that AI will support multiple major winners rather than a single dominant platform.

WHY IS MONZO SO MUCH CHEAPER THAN REVOLUT?

Monzo raised $500M at a $4.5B valuation in late 2021, near the peak of fintech VC funding. Its last employee share sale last year nudged that to $5.9B. That's a 31% gain in three years, while annual revenue grew from £154M to the current £1.7B. Over the same period, competitor Revolut went from $33B in 2021 to $115B in a secondary sale this July, a 3.5x increase. That prices Revolut at roughly 19x its 2025 revenues vs. Monzo's 3x revenues.

CARTA RECEIVES CSSF AUTHORIZATION IN LUXEMBOURG

Carta received Specialised PSF authorization from Luxembourg's CSSF, allowing it to provide licensed fund administration and transfer agency services for structures including SCSp, RAIF, SIF, and SICAR. The move extends Carta's private-capital ERP into one of Europe's largest fund domiciles, with fund administration, KYC, investor workflows, and private credit loan operations running on the same platform across global fund structures.

SPLITWISE LAUNCHES FREE BILL-SPLITTING TOOL

Splitwise, the platform that makes it easier to share expenses with friends and family, today announced Itemize, a new, collaborative way to split a bill from a photo. The free in-app feature allows one person to take a picture of a restaurant or bar receipt and quickly calculate each person's total, with proportional tax and tip included. Everyone at the table can claim their individual and shared items to keep the split fair, even if they don't have the Splitwise app installed.

AIRTABLE LAYS OUT POST-ACQUISITION ROADMAP AFTER MAJOR TEAM CUTS

Following its acquisition by Bending Spoons, Airtable is moving to a leaner operating model while refocusing the product around three priorities: faster improvements to the core platform, deeper AI and agent workflows, and stronger enterprise controls. Near-term plans include monthly customer-requested improvements, better performance and scale, upgraded Omni, Airtable Canvas, a stronger MCP, bring-your-own agents, agent permissions, audit logs, and tighter governance so Airtable can serve as a shared system of record for both people and AI agents.

AGENT PAYMENTS ARE REINVENTING A PROBLEM THE CARD INDUSTRY ALREADY SOLVED

For as long as card payments have existed, a human has been at the keyboard or the terminal, tapping a card, typing a PIN, and clicking buy now. That assumption is ending. A new class of AI agents is being built to shop, negotiate, and pay on our behalf. Your assistant reorders groceries when the fridge runs low. A travel agent books the whole trip the moment prices dip. A procurement bot restocks a warehouse without anyone signing off on each order.

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