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OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team is now working on ChatGPT, according to a note on NextSlide's website from founder Ahmed Beshry. The financial terms were not disclosed, and Beshry said the …
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, the AI presentation maker founded by Ahmed Beshry, and its team has moved to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, according to an acquisition announcement on NextSlide's website. Financial terms were…
Backflip AI launched a scan-to-CAD tool inside Autodesk Fusion on August 3, 2026, that converts 3D scans and mesh files into editable, parametric CAD models with native feature trees or .STEP exports. The startup, which …
A joint study by Imperial College London and Emlyon Business School analyzed 12 companies involved in 27 securities fraud court cases, totaling $688 million in losses and 73 years of prison sentences, and identified a pa…
Suno, the AI music company backed by Founder Collective at seed, is now valued at $5 billion, according to David Frankel, co-founder of Founder Collective, who said on the Twenty Minute VC podcast that a dot-com-style cr…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed last week, forcing it to sell holdings to Ken Griffin's Citadel to meet margin calls, after being up over 270% in late May. Despite Wall Street mockery…
Google Maps Navigation's free release in 2009 caused market caps of traditional GPS giants to plummet, demonstrating that its core competitive advantage was turning smartphones into part of the mapping system and using u…
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of AI software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding at a $15.5 billion valuation, according to The Information. The round would mark a $4.5 billion increas…
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Airtable at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion, a steep discount to its pandemic-era $11.7 billion valuation, reflecting the tough exit environment for pre-AI SaaS companies. Early inv…
Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion, adding the low-code database company to its portfolio alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove, and Vimeo. The deal comes as Airtable, once valued …
Lumilens, an optical data center connectivity startup founded by former Aruba CTO Ankur Singla, emerged from stealth with more than $900 million in total funding and a $5.5 billion valuation. The company aims to replace …
Felix Wong, 33, a Harvard-educated biotech entrepreneur with MIT roots, chose to found his startup in Redwood City, California, despite his Massachusetts upbringing and the state's dominance in biotech, citing California…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, issuing 40.45 million shares, with Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research receiving a strategic placement of 933,900 shares worth about…
ASX info tech stocks rose 17% in the June quarter, outperforming the ASX200's 4% gain, as improving sentiment reopened growth opportunities. ClearVue Technologies (ASX:CPV) was selected for Canva's new Sydney headquarter…
AMD has acquired Taalas, a company previously highlighted in Latent Space's custom ASIC thesis, signaling AMD's commitment to custom silicon for AI inference. The acquisition was announced amid ongoing debates about the …
Naïve Inc., a Palo Alto-based AI lab, has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors. The company provides infrastruc…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company is on track for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2025, up from $2.8 million in 2024, after raising $400 million at a $9 billion valuation in March. Masad discus…
SAAS NORTH AI, Canada's largest software-as-a-service conference, is partnering with Dominion Dynamics and AI company Anvil to launch DEPLOY, a single-day summit in Ottawa on Nov. 5 for founders and investors in defence …
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a startup that hardwires AI models onto custom chips, with financial terms undisclosed. Taalas, founded in 2023 by former AMD…
AMD has acquired Taalas, the AI inference chip startup co-founded by former Tenstorrent CEO Ljubisa Bajic, who will rejoin AMD under Vamsi Boppana's AI organization. Taalas's first chip achieves over 16,000 tokens per se…