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Spark, Mayfield, and Kleiner Perkins pour another $75M into AI data center chipmaker Retym

Mar 20, 2025 · At GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attempted to project confidence, unveiling powerful new chips, personal “supercomputers,” and, of course, really cute robots. It …

Mar 22, 2025 · Welcome back to Week in Review! We've got tons of stories to share from this week, like the greatest hits from Nvidia GTC; the NASA astronauts finally

Feb 7, 2025 · Takeover: XOi, a startup that builds software for maintenance people, acquired competitor Specifx to expand its datasets on repairs. The acquisition was made for an …

Dec 13, 2024 · A-B. Abridge. HQ location: Pittsburgh Funding raised to date (per PitchBook): $464 million Examples of VC backers: Union Square Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, IVP What …

Jan 8, 2025 · The result won’t be a better world, but more of the same inequality. And if that’s AI’s legacy, it’ll be a deeply depressing one. News

Feb 27, 2025 · The acquisition also builds on other sizeable deals in recent times, including IBM’s $34 billion Red Hat purchase in 2019, as well as the $4.6 billion it paid for Apptio in 2023. And …

Mar 7, 2025 · The round, if it transpires, would come about three months after Anysphere completed its previous fundraise of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion, as …

Jan 17, 2025 · An idea for AGI: High-profile AI researcher François Chollet teamed up with Zapier co-founder and head of AI Mike Knoop to launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab …