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Citizens JMP maintained its Market Outperform rating and $515 price target on Alphabet (GOOGL) despite flagging AI talent retention as a meaningful risk after high-profile DeepMind departures, including Noam Shazeer to O…
Public-private partnerships are essential to scale emerging technologies like AI, quantum computing, and biotech beyond the lab, according to a new analysis. The U.S. leads in private AI investment but neglects non-AI fi…
Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire AI infrastructure company Modular Inc. for about $3.9 billion, aiming to strengthen its AI software capabilities with Modular's open, AI-native platform that runs across diverse…
Goldman Sachs led a $110 million Series C investment in Taktile, a financial AI startup that provides decision infrastructure for banks and insurers, as the industry moves from AI pilots to autonomous decision-making. Th…
Two of Apple's biggest Chinese suppliers, Luxshare Precision and Lingyi iTech, are racing to raise billions in Hong Kong to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. Luxshare is seeking about $3bn i…
Sentient Foundation launched a $42 million Open Source AGI Grant and Investment Program to support developers, researchers, and startups building artificial general intelligence technologies openly. The nonprofit aims to…
Micron Technology is set to report fiscal Q3 earnings after the close, with analysts expecting sales of $35.6 billion and adjusted EPS of $20.49, exceeding management's guidance. The memory chip maker has seen surging re…
Superhuman, the productivity firm formerly known as Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI-detection startup founded by Princeton graduate Edward Tian. The $30M ARR company, valued at over $88M, will help Superhuman buil…
Seth Klarman, CEO of Baupost Group, warned investors face vulnerability as massive IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic drain capital from markets at a dangerous pace. The cautious investor argued the surge in blockbu…
Defense-factory startup Hadrian Automation is in talks to raise up to $1 billion at a $7.5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, though the company denies the report. The potential round would more than quadruple it…
OpenAI has started testing Jalapeño, its first in-house AI inference chip developed with Broadcom, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia hardware for serving products like ChatGPT at scale. The chip targets inference workl…
JustAI, a San Francisco-based AI-native marketing platform, raised $17.5 million in a Series A round led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners. The company will use the funding to …
CNBC reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible U.S. government equity stake in the company, with discussions spanning over a year and Altman first raising the idea with …
A Reddit user predicts a wave of consulting work fixing AI-generated code, comparing it to the offshoring boom of 2010. The post argues that AI produces 'slop' that founders mistake for working software, creating a lucra…
Main Capital Partners closed the Netherlands' largest-ever private equity buyout fundraise at €5.25bn, betting on boring, essential enterprise software despite market panic over AI. The firm's loss rate below 0.5% and 4.…
Lenovo announced an expanded Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio featuring agentic AI and inferencing innovations to improve AI economics, accelerate deployment, and optimize performance, governance, and cost across hybrid env…
AI startup Taktile raised $110 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from Tiger Global, Index Ventures, and Y Combinator, to automate high-stakes financial decisions for banks and insurers.…
OpenAI signed a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to show licensed photos in ChatGPT, boosting Getty's stock by ~145%. ByteDance teased Seedance 2.5, a 30-second AI video generator with single-shot output and 4K …
Xella Health, an AI-powered precision health platform for women, launched Wednesday with $4.7 million in funding. The startup uses artificial intelligence to analyze biomarkers and detect over 130 conditions affecting wo…
Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion, its largest fund in 50 years, fueled by a single bet on Anthropic now worth about $14 billion. The firm split the capital into early-stage and growth funds to back AI startups from seed …