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Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse” (www.forbes.com)
2025-2-24 Google

Clearview AI CEO and co-founder Hoan Ton-That resigns from the facial recognition company and says he would continue serving as a board member (www.forbes.com)
2025-2-20 AI Facial Recognition

Sources: Meta is in talks to acquire South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI, which has raised ~$115M since its 2017 founding; the deal could close this month (www.forbes.com)
2025-2-12 Korea Startup AI

Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at a $750M+ valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-1-22

Collate, which is developing tech to automate paperwork for life science companies, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed led by Redpoint at a $100M+ valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-1-20

Jimmy Wales, Mark Ruffalo, others debut Free Our Feeds to raise $30M by 2028 to “billionaire-proof” AT Protocol, by making it easier for users to leave Bluesky (www.forbes.com)
2025-1-14

Sources: Eric Schmidt is working on an AI startup called Hooglee, which describes its mission as “democratizing video creation with AI” (www.forbes.com)
2025-1-9 Startup AI

xAI announces it raised a $6B Series C from a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others, at a reported valuation of at least $40B (www.forbes.com)
2024-12-24 Nvidia

Young founders and coders applying for Elon Musk's DOGE cite a range of professional and civic motivations; sources: DOGE is seeking 100 full-time hires in DC (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-28 Elon Musk

A group of 13 former TSMC staff sue the company in California over an alleged “discriminatory scheme” that favors Taiwanese foreign workers at its US plants (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-14 Taiwan California

Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-13

AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-9 Trump Startup AI

iVerify founder says the FBI is investigating whether China used its access to Verizon networks to infect the iPhones of staff of a US presidential campaign (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-8 China FBI

Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging science and AI, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more (www.forbes.com)
2024-11-1 Google AI Nobel

Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz but faces ethical questions about a profit-sharing program with industry execs (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-29 Startup

Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-26 AI

Chemistry, a new VC firm by Index, Bessemer, and a16z alums Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, raised $350M for its debut, Series A-focused fund (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-24

Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source code vulnerabilities, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures, taking its total funding to $65M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-23

Austin-based SchooLinks, whose SaaS offers college and career readiness resources for K-12 students, raised a $80M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-22 SaaS Equity Career

Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire startup Bridge, a provider of infrastructure for crypto stablecoins, for $1B; Bridge raised $58M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-18 Startup

Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-16 Startup AI

Decagon, which offers enterprises AI-powered customer service agents, raised a $65M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing it at $650M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-16 AI

Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses almost tripled from $512M to $1.3B; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-15 Europe

Braintrust, whose software helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised a $36M Series A led by a16; source: the valuation was ~$150M (www.forbes.com)
2024-10-9 AI

Duolingo unveils an interactive AI feature to “video call” with its Lily mascot, as part of its $30/month Duolingo Max tier; the dialogue is generated by GPT-4o (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-25 AI

Mercor, a jobs marketplace that uses AI to vet and interview candidates, raised a $32M Series A led by Benchmark at a $250M valuation and says it's profitable (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-19 Interview AI Job Market

Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-19 SpaceX Texas

Second Front, which helps companies deploy software in sensitive government networks, raised a $75M Series C led by Salesforce, sources say at a $750M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-13 Salesforce

Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $70M in 2022 from a16z and others, is refunding investors after failing to launch its Goddess Nature Token (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-12

Bolt's Ryan Breslow thanked 13 investors in an email for supporting a $450M Series F, but some say they hadn't given support; BlackRock moves to block the round (www.forbes.com)
2024-9-5

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