Startups & Funding
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures is investing $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, an AI-powered autonomous bookkeeping service...
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Ethics & Regulation
Ten Chinese firms including ByteDance reportedly get US clearance for AI chips they're not allowed to accept
The US has approved roughly ten Chinese companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase up to 75,000...
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Startups & Funding
Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Rivian's spinoff company Mind has raised $400M in funding to scale deployment of its AI-powered industrial robots in...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI
Nvidia partners with British AI startup Ineffable Intelligence to build model training infrastructure for...
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AI Agents
Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
Cisco is laying off nearly 4,000 employees to reallocate resources toward AI development and initiatives. The company...
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Startups & Funding
Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites
Xpanner, a startup that automates construction work by retrofitting equipment with robotics and physical AI technology,...
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Startups & Funding
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has raised $23M in funding to supply creative multimodal data including photos, videos, and 3D content to AI...
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Startups & Funding
Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline...
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LLMAnthropic
Anthropic Targets Small Businesses With Latest Claude Release
Anthropic has released a new version of its Claude model specifically targeted at small businesses. This represents the...
AI Business
LLM
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.0, an image generation model that achieves twice the compression of competitors and...
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Coding Co-pilotOpenAI
Work with Codex from anywhere
OpenAI's Codex is now accessible through the ChatGPT mobile app, enabling users to monitor, manage, and approve coding...
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LLM
ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach
ChatGPT's web traffic share declined significantly from 77.6% to 53.7% over twelve months, while Google Gemini surged...
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LLMAnthropic
New Claude Mythos becomes the first AI model to clear all cyberattack simulations from Britain's AI safety agency
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has become the first AI model to pass all cyberattack simulations from the UK's AI...
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Startups & Funding
April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and...
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AI Agents
Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots
British technology company Humanoid is deploying humanoid robots at German industrial supplier Schaeffler's...
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Personal AssistantsMicrosoft
Microsoft's Edge Copilot can now read all your open tabs at once and write for you on LinkedIn
Microsoft is upgrading Edge's Copilot AI chatbot with new capabilities including the ability to read and compare all...
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LLMAnthropic
Claude subscriptions get separate budgets for programmatic use, billed at full API prices
Anthropic is separating programmatic Claude API usage from subscription quotas as of June 15, providing dedicated...
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AI Agents
Top real estate app development companies in the US: Abilities and costs
Real estate products depend on integrations, data flows, and compliance layers that rarely appear in marketing pages. A...
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Ethics & RegulationMeta
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts
Campbell Brown, former Meta news chief, discusses the disconnect between how Silicon Valley and consumers view AI's...
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