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Voi founders’ new AI startup Pit has become the latest rising star out of Stockholm
Pit, an AI startup founded by the co-founders of European scooter company Voi, has raised $16 million in a seed round...
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SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion to build an AI chip manufacturing facility called 'Terafab' in...
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Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?
Lovable, a Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform, is implementing an automatic 10% annual pay raise for employees as a...
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AI translation company DeepL cuts around 250 jobs to rebuild as an "AI-native" organization
DeepL, a German AI translation company competing with Google Translate, is laying off approximately 250 employees as...
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Startups & FundingAnthropic
Anthropic and SpaceX Agree to Major Compute Capacity Deal
Anthropic and SpaceX have agreed to a major compute capacity deal to support AI infrastructure needs. The agreement...
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Startups & FundingAnthropic
How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its own infrastructure and straight into Musk's data center
Anthropic is partnering with Elon Musk's xAI to access Colossus 1 supercomputer due to rapid 80x growth overwhelming...
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Exclusive: Fazeshift Scores $17M As Investors Bet On AI-Powered Finance Ops, Starting With Accounts Receivable
Fazeshift, an AI-powered startup automating accounts receivable operations, has secured $17 million in Series A...
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China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets
Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI startup, raised $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, capitalizing on growing demand for...
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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
Messages from 2017 reveal Tesla executives, including Shivon Zilis, discussed plans to create a rival AI lab that could...
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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
Snap announced that its $400 million partnership deal with Perplexity AI, which would have integrated the AI search...
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Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI's primary business focus may be shifting toward data center infrastructure development rather than solely training...
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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
Anthropic has signed a deal with Elon Musk's xAI to use computing resources for its AI operations. The partnership...
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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
The article discusses the public revelation of negotiations between Elon Musk and OpenAI founders regarding Musk's...
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SAP Plans to Turn Spreadsheet AI Startup Into Top Frontier Lab
SAP is planning to develop a spreadsheet AI startup into a major frontier AI lab, demonstrating the German enterprise...
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SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
SpaceX is considering building a semiconductor factory called 'Terafab' in Texas with an initial investment of $55...
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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, is valued at $45B in its first investment round after gaining prominence in early 2025 with...
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Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows
Genesis AI, a Khosla-backed robotics startup, unveiled its first foundational AI model GENE-26.5 and demonstrated...
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Nvidia, Corning Partner on Large-Scale AI infrastructure Buildout
Nvidia and Corning have partnered to build optical fiber manufacturing plants to support the growing demand for AI...
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AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T
Samsung achieved a $1 trillion valuation milestone, becoming only the second Asian company after TSMC to reach this...
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