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Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (www.businessinsider.com)
1 day ago

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)
2 days ago Startup

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (www.businessinsider.com)
7 days ago

Despite Musk's claim Apple “makes it impossible” for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (www.businessinsider.com)
8 days ago India AI Apple

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent and is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (www.businessinsider.com)
8 days ago Microsoft AI

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession.” (www.businessinsider.com)
13 days ago Google

Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (www.businessinsider.com)
21 days ago Amazon AI

The judge in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit strikes down 16 of OpenAI's 55 affirmative defenses, accuses both sides of “gamesmanship” and over-litigating the case (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago Elon Musk

Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI “perpetual” access to data like their “likeness” for training; several did not consent (www.businessinsider.com)
29 days ago

Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-7-3 AI chatbot

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-25 AI chatbot WhatsApp

The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-17 AI

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-7 YouTube

Meta's AI team is facing a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-27 AI

Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-11 AI

Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-6 IOS Apple Sweden

Sources: Google has quietly launched 100 Zeros, a film and TV production initiative aiming to promote a positive view of tech and drive adoption of its products (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-6 Google

Nourish, which offers virtual, insurance-covered nutritional care from 3,000+ dietitians, raised a $70M Series B led by JPM, sources say at a $1B+ valuation (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-23 Insurance

Docs: in July 2024, Amazon set up Project Greenland to manage and optimize GPU allocation across its retail unit; Amazon says it now has “ample” GPU capacity (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-22 Amazon Retail

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them “wasteful spending” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-11

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is raising upwards of $2B at a $10B+ valuation, after previously seeking $1B at a $9B valuation in February 2025 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-11

Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-5 AI Terrorism Freelance

X users are asking Grok to fact check other users by tagging @grok, often on political or historical topics, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-2

Sources: ScaleAI is seeking a valuation as high as $25B in a potential tender offer; it was last valued at $13.8B in a $1B Series F round led by Accel in 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-29

Filing: Dell says it had about 108K employees as of January 31, 2025, down from 120K employees in February 2024, marking a 10% annual reduction in its workforce (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-27

Sources: Onavo co-founder Roi Tiger is closing a $55M Series A led by Greenoaks for his stealth cybersecurity startup at a valuation in the hundreds of millions (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-25 Startup

OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify short-form video editing for creators, raised $20M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $215M valuation (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-12 AI

Source: Amazon is building a new “hybrid reasoning” AI model, slated for a June launch under the Nova brand, hoping it can be more price-efficient than rivals (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-5 Amazon AI

Sources: Mira Murati's new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is aiming to raise $1B at a ~$9B valuation; the round is in progress and details could change (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-2-26 Startup

Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-2-23 Amazon

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