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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)
10 days ago 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)
11 days ago 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)
22 days ago

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)
22 days ago

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)
28 days ago 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

Maryland-based Uscreen, which helps creators launch apps, engage fans, monetize memberships, and more, raised $150M from PSG Equity, giving PSG a majority stake (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-2-16 Equity

Saudi Arabia says its Neom megacity project is partnering with DataVolt to build a 1.5-gigawatt-scale AI data center by 2028, investing $5B into its first phase (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-2-12 AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-2-4 Apple

Leaked all-hands recording: Mark Zuckerberg told staff to “buckle up” for an “intense” year, said a changing policy landscape necessitated DEI changes, and more (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-31 Zuckerberg

Sources: Rad AI, which creates AI-powered tools for radiologists, raised a $60M Series C at a $525M valuation; Rad AI raised a $50M Series B in March 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-25 AI

Apptopia: Meta's engagement is steady despite some calls for a Meta boycott over fact-checking and DEI changes; TikTok ban may have overshadowed user concerns (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Sources: Chainalysis acquires AI-agent security startup Alterya for ~$150M; Alterya is still in stealth mode but has clients including Coinbase, Square, Binance (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-14 Startup AI Coinbase

Audio: Meta told the International Fact-Checking Network that its US partnerships will end in March but Community Notes rollout is expected to take time (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-9

Sources: Bluesky is finalizing a new round at a ~$700M valuation led by Bain Capital Ventures; it raised a $15M Series A in October 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-1-8

How Bengaluru, the “Silicon Valley of India”, is under pressure as rapid growth tests local infrastructure; its population jumped from 8M in 2010 to ~14M now (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-12-19 India

Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-11-19 Amazon Uber AI

US gov't data: 669 of 1,089 approved H-1B hires for TikTok and ByteDance from Oct. 2022 to Sept. 2023 were from China, up 50% YoY, despite US lawmaker scrutiny (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-11-13 China H1B

The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-11-12

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8% (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-10-15 Tesla

Elon Musk deleted an X post that said “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-9-16 Trump Elon Musk

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