Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation | TechCrunch
Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion…
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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq said to be nearing new fundraising at $6B valuation | TechCrunch
AI chip startup Groq is in talks to raise a fresh $600 million at a…
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‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park | TechCrunch
California Forever announced on Thursday plans to build a massive manufacturing park called Solano Foundry,…
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Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data labeling business | TechCrunch
Data labelling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff,…
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Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models | TechCrunch
Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta,…
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira…
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No, Andreessen Horowitz didn’t post that crypto scam tweet | TechCrunch
For some tense minutes on Wednesday, X users were surprised to see one of those…
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The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening
OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a…
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After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M
Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 19th year as an institutional early-stage investor by…
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Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to…