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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases upgraded model with domestic chip support (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-21 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)
2025-8-21 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)
2025-8-20 Startup

San Francisco Car Rental Startup Kyte, Once Seen as Hertz Rival, Shuts Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 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)
2025-8-19 Startup

Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel to build ‘web for machines' (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-18 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)
2025-8-17 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)
2025-8-17 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)
2025-8-16 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)
2025-8-16 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)
2025-8-15 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)
2025-8-15 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)
2025-8-15 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)
2025-8-15 Startup

This Stanford graduate's startup wants to change how websites are built using AI (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-14 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)
2025-8-14 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)
2025-8-14 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)
2025-8-14 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)
2025-8-13 Startup AI chatbot Malaysia Islam

AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 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)
2025-8-12 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)
2025-8-11 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)
2025-8-11 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)
2025-8-10 Startup AI Wall Street

India's food supply chain is complex; agritech startups are trying to solve it: Hemendra Mathur, startup mentor (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-9 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)
2025-8-8 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)
2025-8-8 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)
2025-8-8 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)
2025-8-7 IPO Startup

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI San Francisco

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