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Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X
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12 hours ago
iPhone
Apple
AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales
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1 day ago
Startup
AI
Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal
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1 day ago
Adobe
Source: Stability AI has talked to at least one potential buyer in recent weeks about a sale; it lost $30M+ in Q1 and owes ~$100M to cloud providers and others
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2 days ago
AI
Source: xAI has been talking to Oracle about a multi-year $10B deal to rent cloud servers, which would make xAI one of Oracle's largest customers
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3 days ago
Oracle
Sources: in recent months, China asked ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and others to cut back on Nvidia purchases in favor of chips made by local companies
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4 days ago
China
Alibaba
Tencent
Nvidia
Waymo says its Waymo One robotaxis now complete over 50K paid trips every week across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, up from 10K rides in May 2023
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6 days ago
San Francisco
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products
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7 days ago
AI
Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025
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8 days ago
Startup
DatologyAI, which aims to help researchers better curate AI training datasets, raised a $46M Series A led by Felicis, after a $11.65M seed in February 2024
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9 days ago
AI
Internal memo: Shein tells staff that the company is stepping up efforts to keep products made with forced labor off its platform, citing tougher US enforcement
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9 days ago
Sources: Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model that has ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI
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11 days ago
Google
Microsoft
AI
Some developers are releasing longer context windows for Llama 3 thanks to Meta's open-source approach; Llama 3 has a short context window of 8,000+ tokens
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15 days ago
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative
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17 days ago
Google
AI
Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026
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22 days ago
China
Nvidia
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm
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22 days ago
Algorithm
Source: Cognition, which offers an AI coding assistant, raised $175M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation, a month after a Series A at a $350M valuation
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23 days ago
AI
Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021
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29 days ago
Startup
Source: Mistral is in talks with investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in Dec. 2023
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2024-4-17
Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021
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2024-4-13
Source: OpenAI has fired two researchers on its AI safety team for allegedly leaking information, including Leopold Aschenbrenner, an ally of Ilya Sutskever
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2024-4-12
AI
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers
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2024-4-12
AI
Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe
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2024-4-11
HSBC
Ireland
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer
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2024-4-9
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe
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2024-4-9
France
Europe
Spain
Source: Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI device startup is in funding talks with Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital; Ive wants to raise up to $1B in funding
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2024-4-6
Startup
AI
As Amazon plans more grocery stores after an 18-month pause, it will use Dash Carts, where shoppers can scan items as they shop, instead of Just Walk Out tech
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2024-4-3
Amazon
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are a planning a new “Stargate” US-based supercomputer that could cost $100B to power OpenAI products
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2024-3-30
Microsoft
Sources: Accel is in talks to lead a round in Scale AI at a $13B valuation, up from $7.3B in 2021; Scale AI generated $675M+ in revenue in 2023, up ~150% YoY
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2024-3-29
AI
Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit
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2024-3-29
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