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Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

Video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439M in funding, bringing its valuation to over $2B. The company plans to...

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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Nous Research, maker of the Hermes AI agent, is raising at least $75 million in new funding led by Robot Ventures and...

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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Sam Altman faces criticism over promoting space-based data centers to public market investors, with skeptics arguing...

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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own
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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched Oak Lab, a...

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Tokenmaxxing Is Actually Good
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Tokenmaxxing Is Actually Good

Tokenmaxxing highlights how enterprises are inefficiently spending their AI budgets on rebuilding existing solutions...

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Welcome To The ‘Show Me’ Era: Sapphire Ventures’ Anders Ranum On What Separates Winning AI Startups From The Rest
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Welcome To The ‘Show Me’ Era: Sapphire Ventures’ Anders Ranum On What Separates Winning AI Startups From The Rest

Sapphire Ventures partner Anders Ranum discusses how institutional capital is evaluating AI startups amid the valuation...

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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Startups & FundingOpenAI

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI alleging that former Apple engineers stole trade secrets to advance OpenAI's hardware plans. The...

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead

AI infrastructure and cybersecurity companies dominated venture funding this week, with five of the top 10 funding...

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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest foreign IPO in US history, capitalizing on the AI chip boom. The company...

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Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal
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Tencent moves to buy majority stake in Manus after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion deal

Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation after Beijing...

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Prompt: AI's Next Challenge Is Making Better Use of Compute
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Prompt: AI's Next Challenge Is Making Better Use of Compute

Enterprise leaders are finding that while securing AI computing infrastructure has become more accessible, effectively...

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Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
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Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a pilot program to place AI compute nodes in customer...

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork

The article highlights five notable startup deals from the past month, including companies developing AI models for...

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Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows
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Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows

Canva is developing enterprise-focused AI creative workflows that emphasize security, compliance, and collaborative...

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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave. The...

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Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
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Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents

Mercor.io has acquired Deeptune, a startup that builds simulated software environments for training AI agents. The...

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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

Lyzr, an AI agents startup for enterprises, successfully raised $100 million in funding while using its own AI agent to...

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AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation
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AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation

Lyzr Inc., an AI agent startup, is raising approximately $100 million at a $500 million valuation. The funding round...

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DDN targets GPU efficiency with AI data infrastructure as the make-or-break layer
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DDN targets GPU efficiency with AI data infrastructure as the make-or-break layer

DDN emphasizes that AI data infrastructure is critical to maximizing GPU investments in AI factory development. The...

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