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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
Together AI — an AI neocloud that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure — has raised an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. The company was founded in 2022. The round was led by Aramco...
Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
Micromobility company Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO, ending an almost decade-long run as a private company that saw wild valuation swings as it navigated multiple major hype cycles and a global pandemic. The nine-year-old scooter and bike company, which is...
Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freights
Loading the player… The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s...
Lime raises $167M in IPO after years of teasing a public debut
Micromobility company Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO. The nine-year-old scooter and bike company, which is backed by Uber, sold 6.68 million shares at $25 each, at the mid-point of its $24 to $26 price range. Shares started trading on the Nasdaq stock...
Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?
Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew the emergency export controls it had issued previously around the model. The U.S. export control...
Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square’s new, low-fee, no setup integration
Square is launching a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, enabling consumers to discover restaurants and seamlessly place orders directly within these AI platforms — and allowing restaurants, in turn, to accept orders from users and their AI agents without any...
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to implement safeguards to better control how and what their AI models are allowed to respond or do. But concerns and worries can’t...
Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Gemini Spark, Google’s AI agent that can help with aspects of your digital life, is now available on Mac. The company on Wednesday said Spark is being added to the existing Gemini desktop app, as well as several updates and new features, including the ability to stay...
Sony to end physical PlayStation game disc production in 2028
Sony announced Wednesday that it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, marking a move into an all-digital future. After that, every new release will be sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other...
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it. The...
From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?
Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a pitch. Dropbox demoed to a room of skeptics. Cloudflare took the stage before most people understood what edge networking meant. Discord...
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents
OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by the Florida Attorney General on Monday, in a first-of-its-kind state litigation effort over ChatGPT’s alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as...
Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into granting access
Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a victim’s account. Over the weekend, several users on Reddit claimed that...
Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO
SpaceX has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company’s access to a potentially scarce resource: water. The company, which now includes Elon Musk’s AI play, xAI, wrote in an amended version of the filing on Monday that...
Zigging when most are zagging, ex-Meta CTO raises $250M climate fund
Gigascale, the venture firm led by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, announced on Monday that it had raised a $250 million fund to back founders who are “rebuilding the physical economy.” The new fund will focus on energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals all...
Anthropic files to go public
Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said in a blog post Monday. The company, which is valued at close to $1 trillion, submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost
Big news in enterprise AI broke over the weekend as Chinese AI startup MiniMax released its highly anticipated M3 large language model on Sunday evening Eastern time, pairing frontier-tier coding and agentic performance with a 1-million-token context window and native...
SpaceX says it may issue ‘significant’ equity in ‘future transactions’
SpaceX is warning investors that it may dole out “significant equity” in “future transactions” following its upcoming IPO — language that was added amid constant industry gossip that CEO Elon Musk ultimately plans to merge his space-and-AI company with Tesla. The new...
This AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies
A new AI weather forecasting tool released today by the startup WindBorne Systems offers more frequent and accurate predictions on key variables than the world-leading system developed by European governments, thanks to advancements in how sensor readings are fed into...
Anthropic’s browser agent got hijacked 31.5% of the time before safeguards engaged
Across the frontier labs, the highest prompt injection figures published this spring are Anthropic’s. Point a red-teamer at its newest model in a browser, and the attacker hijacked it 31.5% of the time before safeguards engaged. OpenAI, Google, and Meta never gave...
DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI sentiment with the launch of new browser extensions that allow users to set its no-AI search experience, noai.duckduckgo.com, as their default search engine. Once enabled,...
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Super Nintendo Emulators: How to Choose and Install
You've probably already heard about playing Super Nintendo games from the 90's on modern computers, tablets, and smartphones. Now, the process is even simpler than it was 20 years ago. You don't need to buy additional stuff like an expensive console and a bunch of...
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Distracted Driving Statistics On The Rise As Technology Evolves
New studies are shedding some light on the statistics of distracted driving. It is no surprise that many car accidents are caused by distracted drivers. According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 80 percent of all auto accidents are caused by drivers who...