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Sources: OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI, an exclusive funding arrangement to keep its generative AI lead (t.co)
2024-10-3 Startup AI

OpenAI Asks Investors Not To Back Rival Startups Such as Elon Musk's xAI (news.slashdot.org)
2024-10-3 Startup Elon Musk

Sources: OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI (www.ft.com)
2024-10-3 Startup

Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, instead focusing on its chatbots (t.co)
2024-10-2 Google Startup AI chatbot

AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-10-2 Startup AI

VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff (www.nytimes.com)
2024-10-2 Startup

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup

AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
2024-10-1 IPO Startup AI

Series Entertainment, a game studio startup building a generative AI-powered service for making games, raised a $28M Series A from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-1 Startup AI Netflix

A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (www.supervised.news)
2024-9-29 Startup

A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a “pill mill”, as it continues to operate from China (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-28 China Startup

A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-27 Energy Startup AI

Stripe data: AI startups took a median 11 months to hit $1M in annualized revenue after their first sales, vs. 15 months for previous gen of SaaS companies (t.co)
2024-9-27 SaaS Startup AI

The UK's Gambling Commission plans to take fantasy football startup Sorare to court next week over charges of providing unlicensed gambling facilities to users (t.co)
2024-9-27 Startup

A look at some exciting startups from Day 1 of YC's AI-heavy S24 Demo Day, including estate planning startup Elayne and clinical trial startup Baseline (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup AI

In a filing, Oracle reveals a 29% stake in server CPU design startup Ampere with an option to own; Ampere's CEO Renee James is stepping down from Oracle's board (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-26 Startup Oracle

A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China (t.co)
2024-9-26 China Startup FBI Qihoo

a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ's case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups (fortune.com)
2024-9-26 Startup

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-26 Startup Slack Shopify

Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets (t.co)
2024-9-25 China Startup FBI Qihoo

In a controversial move, Israel's ISA clears AI startup Bridgewise to launch a chatbot that gives stock picking advice, slated to debut with a big Israeli bank (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-25 Israel Startup AI chatbot

Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~$400M in H1 2024 and had ~$980M in cash; the data labeling startup raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in May (www.theinformation.com)
2024-9-24 Startup AI

Startups Are Going 'Fair Source' To Avoid Pitfalls of Open Source Licensing (news.slashdot.org)
2024-9-24 Startup Open Source

Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $75M Series A at a $325M valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2024-9-24 Startup AI Mathematics

Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210M Series B led by hedge fund Hornbill Capital at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1.1B valuation in June 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-20 India Startup

French digital health insurance startup Alan raised €173M led by Belgian bank Belfius Bank at a €4B valuation, bringing its total raised since 2021 to €500M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-20 France Startup Insurance Belgium

IBM Acquires Kubernetes Cost Optimization Startup Kubecost (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-9-18 IBM Startup

IBM acquires Kubecost, a FinOps startup launched in 2019 that helps companies monitor and optimize Kubernetes clusters; Kubecost had raised $30M+ in funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-18 IBM Startup

Armenian startup EasyDMARC, which uses the DMARC standard to simplify email security and authentication, raised a $20M Series A led by Radian Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-17 Startup

Brain implant startup Synchron says its interface now lets people with paralysis use Alexa without voice or physical interaction, on top of iPhones and more (www.wired.com)
2024-9-17 Startup

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