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Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet
Estonia-based Blackwall, which builds web traffic security tools for hosting providers, said on Tuesday that it has raised $100 million…
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Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO…
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Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
Elorian, the Palo Alto AI startup that raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation before it…
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Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI
As manufacturers across industries strive to reduce their reliance on Chinese suppliers, Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25 million to…
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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract…
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We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind of looks…
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a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI — but where some see a crisis, others see…
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Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, the AI…
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Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?
The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it…
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Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies
“When will we start flying?” I asked Vessev co-founder and CEO Eric Laakmann, as we pulled away from the Brooklyn…
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Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America
Neko Health seems to be the hottest body scan in the world right now. The scan, co-founded by Spotify’s David…
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Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID
After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now taking the…
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