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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s stealth AI startup targets $2B seed round at $10B valuation

Thinking Machines Lab, a stealth AI startup founded by former CTO of OpenAI Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking to raise $2 billion in seed funding. Business Insider, citing sources close to the deal, reported on Thursday that Thinking Machines Lab […]

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Google lays off hundreds in Android, Pixel, and Chrome units amid strategic AI push

Alphabet’s Google has laid off hundreds of employees across key product teams—Android, Pixel, and Chrome—as the company continues shifting resources into its growing AI efforts. The job cuts, first reported by The Information, affect its platforms and devices unit, signaling […]

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Cybersecurity in the Age of Smart Machines: What Industries Need to Know

We’re undeniably becoming increasingly reliant on digital data in our daily lives. As technologies like IoT, AI-driven platforms, smart devices and systems, and more become prevalent, simple, everyday tasks such as driving a car, shopping online, and locking our doors […]

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OpenAI supercharges ChatGPT memory in major leap toward AGI — Now remembers everything, and feels almost human

ChatGPT just got a major memory upgrade—and it might be the biggest step yet toward something that actually feels like a smart assistant, not just a chatbot. OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT can now reference your entire chat history to […]

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Symphonic Capital launches $13.5M fund to back underrepresented founders in healthcare and fintech

Early-stage startups solving real-world problems don’t always get the attention they deserve—especially those working outside of Silicon Valley. That’s where Symphonic Capital steps in. The VC firm, led by Sydney Thomas, just closed its $13.5 million debut fund to invest […]

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AI chip startup NEye Systems raises $58M to power energy-efficient data centers with optical chips, led by Alphabet’s CapitalG

nEye Systems, an AI chip startup spun out of research at UC Berkeley, has raised $58 million in fresh funding to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing AI data centers: energy efficiency and flexibility. The round was led by […]

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Google launches Firebase Studio, a free AI coding tool and alternative to Cursor, Bolt, and v0 for building full-stack apps

Google just shook up the developer tool space with something that’s bound to get attention: Firebase Studio — a browser-based, AI-driven development environment that’s free and feels like it was made to challenge tools like Cursor, Bolt, and v0 head-on. […]

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Google’s Alphabet to invest $75B in AI chips and infrastructure to power generative models like Gemini

Google parent Alphabet isn’t slowing down its artificial intelligence (AI) push. The company is making one of its boldest financial moves yet. On Wednesday, Alphabet announced it plans to spend $75 billion this year to expand its data center capacity […]

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AI startups get a boost: Nebius and NVIDIA join forces to offer $150K in cloud credits and early Blackwell access

Just three months after securing $700 million from backers like NVIDIA and Accel, Nebius is deepening its relationship with the chip giant to support early-stage startups building AI-first products and services. Nebius AI Cloud is now working closely with NVIDIA’s […]

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Autonomous driving startup Nuro raises $106M in funding at $6B valuation to scale its AI-powered delivery robots

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has raised $106 million in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to $6 billion, the company announced on Wednesday. The Series E round is the company’s first major raise in over […]

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TikTok’s algorithm can’t be exported without China’s approval—putting U.S. sale in jeopardy

TikTok’s future in the U.S. is once again up in the air. President Trump recently gave ByteDance an extra 75 days to finalize a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—an extension that came after negotiations reportedly stalled. Behind the scenes, […]

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Llama 4 Scandal: Meta’s release of Llama 4 overshadowed by cheating allegations on AI benchmark

Meta rolled out its much-hyped Llama 4 models this past weekend, touting big performance gains and new multimodal capabilities. But the rollout hasn’t gone as planned. What was supposed to mark a new chapter in Meta’s AI playbook is now […]

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Andreessen Horowitz to raise record $20B AI megafund as global investors bet on U.S. tech

Less than a month after reports surfaced that Andreessen Horowitz was aiming to raise $7.2 billion across a series of new venture funds, Silicon Valley’s most ambitious venture capital firm is already going bigger. According to an exclusive report from […]

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HealthTech startup Transcarent acquires Accolade for $621M as digital health M&A heats up

Transcarent just pulled off one of the biggest health-tech deals of the year. The digital health startup announced Tuesday that it has officially completed its $621 million acquisition of Accolade, a move that merges two major players in employer-focused healthcare. […]

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