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SpaceX Shares Fall 4% After Starship Launch Abort
SpaceX shares fell approximately 4% on Friday morning after the company aborted a planned Starship test launch in Texas…
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Uber to Acquire Delivery Hero for $14.8 Billion
Uber has agreed to acquire Germany's Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion, though the actual cash outlay will be lower since…
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Andrew Dai, a former DeepMind researcher who contributed to foundational AI research that influenced ChatGPT's…
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Ode, a joint venture founded by Anthropic with backing from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others,…
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Stripe and Advent Bid $53B for PayPal, Opening Door to Bidding War
Stripe and private equity firm Advent have jointly offered $53 billion to acquire PayPal, a move that puts the…
Indian AI Coding Startup Emergent Reaches Unicorn Status in 12 Months
Indian AI coding startup Emergent has achieved unicorn status with a $130 million Series C funding round, just over a…
Hinge Founder Raises $18M for AI Voice Dating App Overtone
Justin McLeod, founder of dating app Hinge, has raised $18 million to launch Overtone, a new AI-powered dating service…
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AWS GPU Shortage Pushes AI Startups to Cloud Rivals
Arcee, an open-source AI developer that committed to spending $8 million over three years with AWS, has been unable to…
OpenAI Researcher Launches $2B AI Drug Discovery Startup
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup that has attracted funding discussions…
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Reflection AI secures $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI, a startup founded in 2024 that develops open source AI technology, has secured a $1 billion compute deal…
Nous Research raises $75M at $1.5B valuation for Hermes agents
Nous Research, maker of the Hermes agent framework, is raising at least $75 million in new funding at a $1.5 billion…
Anthropic Launches Rupee Pricing for India Market
Anthropic has begun offering Claude subscription plans denominated in Indian rupees, marking the company's first…
AI Agent Startup Lets Its Own Product Run $100M Fundraise
Lyzr, an enterprise AI agent startup, used its own AI agent to lead a $100 million fundraising round. The company…
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Cursor Builds AI Agent to Challenge Claude Cowork
Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent to compete with Anthropic's Claude Cowork, marking an expansion beyond…
Startup Shrinks 27B-Parameter Model to iPhone
PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup, claims to have compressed Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 large language model, which…
Ollama raises $65M as local AI tool hits 9M users
Ollama, an open source tool that enables developers to run AI models locally on personal computers, has raised $65…
Prime Intellect lands $130M to help enterprises build their own AI agents
Prime Intellect, founded in 2024, has raised $130 million in Series A funding to enable enterprises to build and train…
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Robotics Startup Bets on Video Game Data for AI Foundation Models
General Intuition is developing foundation models for robotics by training on millions of hours of video game data…