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Autonomous driving tech startup Nuro closed its $203M Series E at a $6B valuation, adding $97M from Uber, Nvidia, and others to April's $106M tranche (t.co)
5 hours ago Uber Startup Nvidia

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases upgraded model with domestic chip support (indianexpress.com)
6 hours ago China Startup AI

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching “always-on” AI glasses for $249 (techcrunch.com)
18 hours ago Startup AI Ban Facial Recognition

Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup

San Francisco Car Rental Startup Kyte, Once Seen as Hertz Rival, Shuts Down (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Startup San Francisco

Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Startup

Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel to build ‘web for machines' (indianexpress.com)
3 days ago Startup AI Twitter

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (fortune.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks (www.forbes.com)
5 days ago Startup

Jump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation (www.forbes.com)
5 days ago SaaS Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (www.theverge.com)
6 days ago Startup

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (www.theinformation.com)
6 days ago Startup

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
6 days ago Startup

This Stanford graduate's startup wants to change how websites are built using AI (indianexpress.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

A look at social media “clippers”, who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Startup

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Trump Tax Startup

Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims that it built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI chatbot Malaysia Islam

AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser (indianexpress.com)
9 days ago Google Startup AI Browser Chrome

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (www.axios.com)
10 days ago Microsoft Startup GitHub

Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI chatbot Malaysia Islam

CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M (www.cnbc.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup AI Wall Street

India's food supply chain is complex; agritech startups are trying to solve it: Hemendra Mathur, startup mentor (indianexpress.com)
12 days ago India Startup

Sources: Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Startup Tesla

Sources: German AI startup n8n is expected to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a pre-money valuation of $2.3B, up from ~$350M four months ago (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Germany Startup AI

Sources: Tesla is disbanding the Dojo supercomputer team, and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Startup Tesla

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value” (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago IPO Startup

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