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Meridian Ventures Raises $35 Million Fund To Back MBA-Founded Startups
Meridian Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Harvard Business School classmates Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney, has raised a $35 million fund focused on backing pre-seed and seed-stage startups…
Osaurus Builds Apple-Focused Local AI Platform For Switching Between Multiple LLMs
As competition among AI model providers intensifies, startups are increasingly focusing on the software layer that manages how users interact with large language models. One company entering that space is…
Rapido Raises $240 Million At $3 Billion Valuation As Competition Intensifies In India’s Mobility Market
Indian ride-hailing startup Rapido said Friday it had raised $240 million in new funding at a $3 billion valuation as the company expands its position in India’s highly competitive mobility…
Jury Begins Deliberations In Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI And Microsoft
Nine jurors in California have begun deliberating in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, its co-founders, and Microsoft, a case that could affect the future structure of one of the world’s…
SpaceXAI Reportedly Loses Dozens Of Researchers Following Merger And Leadership Changes
Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI has reportedly experienced a significant wave of employee departures since February, with more than 50 researchers and engineers leaving the company, according to a report…
OpenAI Brings Codex To Mobile With Remote Workflow Management In ChatGPT App
OpenAI has expanded its coding tool Codex to mobile devices through the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage development workflows remotely from iOS and Android devices. The update,…
Lovable Backs Danish Startup Atech To Bring AI-Driven “Vibe Coding” To Hardware Development
AI app-building platform Lovable has invested in Danish hardware startup Atech as part of an $800,000 pre-seed funding round focused on simplifying hardware prototyping through AI-generated code. The round also…
Cerebras IPO Delivers Billions For Benchmark After Early Doubts Over AI Chip Startup
Cerebras Systems generated billions of dollars in value during its IPO debut on Thursday, rewarding founders, employees, and early investors after nearly a decade of development challenges. One of the…
Recursive Superintelligence Launches With $650 Million To Pursue Self-Improving AI
Richard Socher, known for founding chatbot startup You.com and for earlier work tied to ImageNet, has launched a new AI startup called Recursive Superintelligence, or RSI, with $650 million in…
OpenAI Reportedly Weighs Legal Action Against Apple Over ChatGPT Integration
OpenAI is reportedly considering legal action against Apple over dissatisfaction with how ChatGPT has been integrated into the iPhone ecosystem, according to a Bloomberg News report cited by TechCrunch. The…
Amnesty Researcher Says Signal Phishing Campaign May Have Targeted More Than 13,500 Users
Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, head of Amnesty International Security Lab, said he uncovered details of a large-scale phishing campaign targeting Signal users after hackers attempted to compromise his own account earlier…
Cisco Cuts Nearly 4,000 Jobs While Increasing AI And Cybersecurity Investments
Cisco is laying off nearly 4,000 employees, representing about 5% of its workforce, as the networking company restructures spending priorities toward artificial intelligence and cybersecurity despite posting stronger-than-expected financial results…
Wirestock Raises $23 Million After Pivoting From Stock Photography Platform To AI Data Supplier
Wirestock has raised $23 million in Series A funding after shifting its business from stock photography distribution to supplying multimodal datasets for AI model training, joining a growing group of…
Uber Expands India Engineering Operations With New Campuses And Adani Data Center Partnership
Uber is expanding its technology and infrastructure presence in India with plans for two new engineering campuses and a partnership with Adani Group to build its first Indian data center,…
Former Facebook News Executive Campbell Brown Launches Forum AI To Evaluate Accuracy Of AI Models
Campbell Brown, the former television journalist and former head of news partnerships at Facebook, is building a new company focused on evaluating the accuracy and reliability of AI models in…
Legal AI Companies Report Rapid Revenue Growth As Law Firms Increase Use Of LLM Tools
Artificial intelligence companies focused on legal services are reporting rapid revenue growth as law firms adopt large language model tools for tasks such as document drafting, contract analysis, legal research,…
Notion Launches Developer Platform With AI Agents, Workflow Automation, And External Data Integrations
Notion has introduced a new developer platform designed to expand the capabilities of its AI agents, allowing customers to build automated workflows, connect external AI systems, deploy custom code, and…
NAACP Challenges xAI Over Use Of Nearly 50 Gas Turbines At Mississippi Data Center
xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, is operating nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center while avoiding state air pollution oversight through a regulatory…
Anthropic Says Claude Development Is Focused On Automation, Coding, And Proactive AI Features
Anthropic is continuing to expand the role of its Claude AI platform as the company gains momentum among enterprise customers, pursues a funding round that could value the company at…
VirusTotal Malware Archive Equals More Than Two Eiffel Towers Of Hard Drives, Researchers Estimate
Malware archive operators and cybersecurity researchers are drawing attention to the scale of modern malware collections after malware research group vx-underground and malware scanning platform VirusTotal disclosed the approximate size…