Startups & FundingOpenAI
ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO
ChatGPT's growth is slowing significantly, with uninstall rates surging 413% year-over-year in May following OpenAI's...
The Verge AI
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AI startup ecosystem
Startups & Funding
Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round
Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform designed to enable data-driven decision-making without requiring a...
Crunchbase News
Startups & Funding
Larry’s risky business
Oracle has pivoted to AI as its traditional database business declines, positioning itself as a unique player in the AI...
The Verge AI
Startups & FundingMeta
Meta Scales AI Infrastructure With AWS Chip Deal
Meta has announced a major chip deal with AWS as part of the ongoing competition among tech giants to scale up AI...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents
The model expands the AI chip giant’s non-hardware offerings.
AI Business
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BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
Neurable, a BCI startup, is developing non-invasive neural data collection technology and seeking to license it for...
TechCrunch AI
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Record $1.1B Seed Funding for Reinforcement Learning Startup
A reinforcement learning startup has secured a record $1.1B in seed funding. The company aims to achieve...
AI Business
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NEA’s Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI
NEA partner Tiffany Luck discusses how startup founders can build sustainable competitive advantages in vertical AI, a...
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Lightelligence’s 400% debut is a bet that AI’s next bottleneck is the optical interconnect
Lightelligence debuted on a stock exchange with a market capitalization briefly reaching US$10 billion despite only...
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Startups & FundingOpenAI
OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in
OpenAI missed its internal revenue targets for Q1 2026 while facing increasing competition from Anthropic and Google....
The Decoder
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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a new British AI lab founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has secured $1.1...
TechCrunch AI
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Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch
Skye's new AI home screen app for iPhone has attracted investor backing before its launch, demonstrating growing...
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Startups & FundingMeta
China Moves to Block Meta’s $2B Acquisition of AI Startup
China is moving to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of an AI startup, reflecting escalating tensions between the...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
David Silver, creator of AlphaGo, has launched a new billion-dollar company focused on developing AI "superlearners."...
Wired AI
Startups & FundingGoogle
Google Could Invest Another $40B in Anthropic
Google is considering investing an additional $40 billion in Anthropic as part of a broader tech industry investment...
AI Business
Startups & FundingMeta
Meta wants to power AI data centers with solar energy from space
Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to secure up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power to support...
The Decoder
Startups & FundingMeta
China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
China has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the unwinding of the already completed...
The Decoder
Startups & FundingOpenAI
The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership
OpenAI and Microsoft have announced an amended partnership agreement that clarifies their long-term relationship and...
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Startups & FundingAnthropic
To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
A Bay Area property in Mill Valley is being offered for sale with an unusual requirement that buyers must have...
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