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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...
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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents
The model expands the AI chip giant’s non-hardware offerings.
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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...
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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...
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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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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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."...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha
Canadian AI startup Cohere is acquiring Germany-based Aleph Alpha with backing from Lidl's parent company Schwarz...
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Google pours up to $40 billion into ChatGPT rival Anthropic
Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, with Amazon also pledging $25...
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Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’
Cohere, a Canada-based AI company, is merging with Aleph Alpha, a German AI startup, to create a transatlantic AI...
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