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Through strategic M&A, Kite will provide brand founders with capital, operations and technology to accelerate their business across “every channel,” from e-commerce to social, retail and beyond.

After GoFundMe, Rob Solomon is flying a $200M Kite in the land of commerce by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Axle allows users to connect their insurance account to trusted companies in seconds and then automates insurance verification.

Gradient Ventures backs Axle’s ‘Plaid for insurance’ approach to data verification by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

A year after Twitter restricted the Russian government accounts on its platform, the social network appears to have removed those blockings. The Elon Musk-owned platform has resumed surfacing accounts of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Embassy in search results. The change, spotted by The Telegraph, also shows the Russian authorities’ accounts on timelines and recommendations. […]

Twitter is now resurfacing official Russian accounts in search results by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

A handful of startups think bricks that hold heat could be the key to bringing renewable energy to some of the world’s biggest polluters. Industries that make products ranging from steel to baby food require a lot of heat—most of which is currently generated by burning fossil fuels like natural gas. Heavy industry makes up…

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. On April 3, my colleague Eileen Guo and I published a story that takes readers inside a tense debate about privacy within one of the…