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Meta Partners With Reliance for First India AI Data Center
Startups & FundingMeta

Meta Partners With Reliance for First India AI Data Center

Meta has partnered with Reliance to establish India's first AI data center. The partnership comes as Meta faces...

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Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
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Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI

Warner Music Group acquired Sureel AI, an AI attribution startup, to better track when artists' work is used in...

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OpenAI wants its biggest data center yet, and Nvidia would back the bill
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI wants its biggest data center yet, and Nvidia would back the bill

OpenAI is negotiating to lease a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia potentially providing financial backing...

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Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
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Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

Jedify raised $24M in a funding round led by Norwest to help companies equip AI agents with business context. The round...

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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart launched Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous...

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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

Meta has signed its first AI data center deal in India with Reliance, establishing a 168-megawatt facility to support...

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Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
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Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable

MIT researchers founded Ferveret, a startup developing a nuclear-inspired cooling system designed to reduce energy and...

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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
Startups & FundingAnthropic

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Justin Ernest of Sabertooth VC deployed nearly $500M into AI and tech startups including Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX...

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SpaceX wants to put data centers in orbit, and Musk says it's no big deal
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SpaceX wants to put data centers in orbit, and Musk says it's no big deal

SpaceX plans to launch orbital data centers to support AI workloads, with Elon Musk downplaying the engineering...

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It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.
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It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

The article discusses how SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are preparing for major public debuts, potentially creating a...

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OpenAI’s IPO: Navigating Profitability and Market Dynamics
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI’s IPO: Navigating Profitability and Market Dynamics

OpenAI is preparing for an IPO amid a competitive landscape where other major AI vendors are also planning public...

AI Business
Amazon Taps Fiber Optics Producer Corning for Data Center Expansion
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Amazon Taps Fiber Optics Producer Corning for Data Center Expansion

Amazon has partnered with fiber optics producer Corning to support its data center expansion, building on Corning's...

AI Business
Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
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Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams

Sandstone has raised $30M in Series A funding to develop AI solutions for in-house legal teams. The funding round comes...

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Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
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Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week

Lovable has achieved $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue with users building businesses and replacing internal...

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AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits
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AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits

29 companies achieved unicorn status in May, with AI services and robotics being the standout trend rather than new AI...

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OpenAI says going public is "a complicated set of tradeoffs" and is unsure about the timing
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI says going public is "a complicated set of tradeoffs" and is unsure about the timing

OpenAI has confidentially filed an S-1 registration with the SEC as a first step toward going public, though the...

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OpenAI files for IPO, following Anthropic
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI files for IPO, following Anthropic

OpenAI has confidentially submitted a Form S-1 filing with the SEC in pursuit of an IPO, following Anthropic's similar...

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OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO, following Anthropic's similar filing the previous week. This marks a...

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OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic
Startups & FundingOpenAI

OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic

OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, following Anthropic's similar filing from the previous week. This marks an...

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