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Why Insight Partners Diversifies While Peers Bet on OpenAI

Deven Parekh advocates for a pragmatic approach to AI, prioritizing tangible benefits like medical breakthroughs over speculative safety risks while…

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AI & Tech

Mecka AI Hits $500M Valuation in Sequoia-Led Robot Data Deal

Mecka AI is approaching a $500 million valuation following a Sequoia Capital-led funding round, highlighting intense competition for high-quality physical-world…

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Digital Marketing

YC’s Garry Tan urges US labs to distill frontier AI models

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urges U.S. AI developers to embrace model distillation as a strategic tool to strengthen open-weight…

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Business

VCs Back Pro Sports Ownership: Thrive Capital, Collaborative Fund Lead

Venture capital firms like Collaborative Fund are increasingly acquiring stakes in professional sports franchises, challenging traditional ownership models dominated by…

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AI & Tech

Amazon Appoints Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia to Board

Kevin Mandia, founder of cybersecurity firm Mandiant, has officially joined Amazon’s board of directors to serve on the Audit and…

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AI & Tech

Matt Mullenweg Reclaims Control at Automattic After CEO Ouster

Matt Mullenweg has reinstated himself as CEO of Automattic after a brief period where the board placed him on leave…

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AI & Tech

Central Eurasia’s 2026 Road to Battlefield Winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ won the Central Eurasia regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026, earning the…

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AI & Tech

OpenAI Halts $200 ChatGPT Pro Signups Amid High Demand

OpenAI has paused new sign-ups for its $200 ChatGPT Pro tier due to overwhelming demand for the Astra model, prioritizing…

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AI & Tech

Google signs biggest rice-methane carbon deal with Mitti Labs

Google has signed a landmark four-year agreement with Indian climate-tech firm Mitti Labs to purchase one million carbon credits derived…

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AI & Tech

Besxar Builds Orbital Semiconductor Factory With SpaceX Rockets

Driven by the reliability of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster, startup Besxar has secured agreements to prototype an orbital semiconductor factory,…

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AI & Tech

Suno Switches to Licensed Music AI as Copyright Suits Mount

Suno v6 shifts its training methodology to licensed data from major industry players like Warner Music Group and BMG to…

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Automotive

Autonomy Shifts to Gas Cars to Save Subscriptions

Autonomy is pivoting from its original all-electric strategy to include gas-powered vehicles, such as Ford trucks and SUVs, after its…

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Artificial Intelligence

Ex-DeepMind Team Builds Fusion Tools for Grid Power

Former DeepMind researchers Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli launched Fusionality, a Swiss startup providing standardized hardware and software tools to…

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AI & Tech

Poseidon Aerospace Secures $60M Before Pilotless Test

Silicon Valley startup Poseidon Aerospace has raised $60 million in Series A funding to support its upcoming pilotless cargo flights…

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AI & Tech

AI Terms Explained: What Is Opaque Recurrence?

The article defines key AI concepts such as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), autonomous AI agents, and coding agents, which perform…

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AI & Tech

Thinking Machines in Talks to Raise $6bn: The Information

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is negotiating a $5 billion to $6 billion funding round that values the company at…

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AI & Tech

Ultrahuman Raises $70M to Turn Ring Into a Computer

Ultrahuman secured $70 million in funding to transform its smart ring from a passive health tracker into an independent computing…

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AI & Tech

Krafton Invests $250M in India Beyond Gaming

Krafton is investing an additional $250 million in India over the next three to four years, bringing its total regional…

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AI & Tech

Why AI-Generated Menus Look Unappetizing

Generative AI menus often trigger customer unease because their unnatural smoothness and lack of organic imperfections signal synthetic origins, resembling…

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AI & Tech

Judge Blocks X Rival From Using Twitter Name, Allows ‘Tweet’

A Delaware federal judge ruled that X Corp. abandoned its rights to the "tweet" mark and bird logo, allowing startup…

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