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Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO Thursday, pricing shares at $185 before the stock surged 108% to open at $385 in public trading. The AI chipmaker, a competitor to Nvidia, ended its fir…

Ian Crosby, whose accounting startup Bench collapsed in 2024, has raised $10 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures for his new venture, Synthetic, which aims to build a fully autonomous AI book…