Email: SpaceX is raising $750M in a round likely led by a16z at a $137B valuation; the company raised $2B+ in 2022 and was valued at $127M in May (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Riyadh-based Manafa, which offers SMBs debt and equity financing based on a crowdfunding model, raised a ~$28.2M Series A led by STV and Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures (Deena Kamel/The National) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

India releases draft online gaming rules, seeking to create a self-regulatory body and to require parental consent for gamers under 18, for public consultation (Moneycontrol) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein says the company's Audiences tool, pooling data for upload to Meta and Google's ad platforms, is a key focus going forward (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

A look at a growing wave of US doctors and telehealth startups prescribing ketamine online, aided by looser federal rules on prescribing controlled substances (Daniel Gilbert/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 05:41 Rating: 5

German grocery delivery app Flink, one of the last independent services, had €400M in 2022 sales and expects to be profitable in 2023; Flink has raised $700M+ (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:41 Rating: 5

A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto's rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy's growth, pizza robots, and more (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

What 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and around the world, as bankruptcies stretch into the new year, attracting lawmakers and criminal probes (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network's users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune difficulty, find world geometry flaws, and sniff out situations that make it impossible to win (Matthew Smith/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5