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Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to ease the compute crunch
The startup founded by Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini is building AI that designs chips, learns from each iteration and improves the next one — aiming to automate and accelerate chip design.
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Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy, Sells Assets to Disney
One of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Disney is the lead bidder for its assets.
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Nvidia in Talks to Acquire 'Open' Model Startup Reflection AI
According to the Financial Times, Nvidia is in discussions to acquire Reflection AI, a US startup building 'open' artificial intelligence models.
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China's Manus raises over $500M after failed Meta deal
It's the startup's first funding round since Chinese authorities forced it to abandon a $2 billion acquisition by Meta. Investors include Boyu Capital, IDG Capital, Tencent and others.
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What Even Counts as an OS Anymore?
The author of sockpuppet.org is leaving Fly.io to build a new kind of phone — and explains why he believes AI is about to erase the line between programmers and users.
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The dark forest of world models: why the labs stay quiet
World-model startups have raised heaps of cash and hype, yet no one — not even their own data suppliers — can get them to say what they are actually building.
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Insight Partners isn't betting the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic — and here's why
Deven Parekh, who has co-led the $90 billion venture firm Insight Partners for 26 years, explains why he holds stakes in competing AI labs and why diversification is safer than the fashionable concentration on the two front-runners.
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AI startup Instinct raises $350M at a $2.5B valuation
A one-year-old startup led by a 23-year-old founder offers an AI assistant that will “organize your life” — and it has already stirred up not just buzz, but also privacy concerns.
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Hugging Face in Talks Over a Sale at a $13 Billion Valuation
According to Business Insider, the AI-model-sharing platform is being valued at more than $13 billion. But the founders' sense of responsibility to the community casts doubt on whether a deal will happen at all.
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Startup Inherent: the small Faraday model beat Claude and GPT at reproducing scientific papers
London-based lab Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, has unveiled its AI agent Faraday, which — running on a compact model — outperformed the systems from Anthropic and OpenAI at independently reproducing the results of scientific papers.
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AI Learns on Living Skin: The Secret Biostartup of Lady Gaga's Partner
Michael Polansky, known to the public as Lady Gaga's partner and a former aide to Sean Parker, spent several years quietly building a company that keeps human skin alive outside the body for weeks — so that AI can hunt for new cosmetic ingredients.
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Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
Payments giant Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the startup that bills itself as “the Stripe for artificial intelligence.” According to Bloomberg, the deal is worth more than $7 billion.
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SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Deal to Acquire Cursor
Cursor, the startup building AI tools for programmers, has officially become part of SpaceX. The company promises developers access to the world's largest fleet of GPUs.
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Aschenbrenner's Hedge Fund Invests $400M in Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off most of its public portfolio, the Situational Awareness fund keeps making big bets — this time in chip manufacturing.
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, a Startup That Builds Presentations from Prompts
The team behind NextSlide, a startup that turned notes and documents into finished slides, is moving to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT.
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Jeff Dean Is Leaving Google to Speed Up Science with AI
One of Google's longest-serving executives, together with several of the company's leading researchers, has founded Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific experiments.
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Malaysia Shuts Down Balaji Srinivasan's Network School
The Malaysian government has ordered the closure of a “community for tech optimists” conceived as the first step toward building a new state. The founder has already announced a new site in Kazakhstan.
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Pippa Pays Artists for Their Style — but Is That Enough to Reconcile Them with AI?
The startup Pippa offers illustrators royalties for every image and video it generates, promising “ethical” generative AI. Yet its models are still trained on data scraped from the web without the creators’ consent.
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Startup Offered a Tattoo in Exchange for an Interview — and Apologized
AI startup LemonLime lured “reckless” developers with free tattoos of its logo. After a wave of criticism, the company's head admitted he had “gone too far.”
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Cyera Buys Oasis Security for $1B to Protect AI Agents
Data-security company Cyera has struck a deal to acquire Oasis Security, a startup specializing in the security of “non-human” identities. It is already Cyera's third deal this year.
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