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Gimlet Labs launches with $12M to port AI agents across chips
Artificial intelligence startup Gimlet Labs Inc. launched today with $12 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Factory led the consortium. It was joined by Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan, Figma Inc. CEO Dylan Field, former VMware Inc. CEO Raghu Raghuram and other angel investors. By default, many AI models can only ...
FalconX acquires crypto fund provider 21Shares
FalconX Ltd., a startup that provides crypto investment tools, today announced plans to acquire fellow digital asset company 21Shares AG. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to the Wall Street Journal, FalconX will finance the transaction with a combination of cash and stock. San Mateo, California-based FalconX received a $8 billion valuation ...
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio sign statement urging suspension of AGI development
Hundreds of scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs and artists have signed a statement urging the suspension of efforts to develop artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The brief document was published today on the website of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit co-founded by Skype co-creator Jaan Tallinn. Tallinn was also an early investor in DeepMind, a ...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser with embedded AI agent
OpenAI today launched ChatGPT Atlas, an artificial intelligence browser that can interact with web pages on the user’s behalf. Atlas is initially available on macOS. OpenAI plans to release Windows, iOS and Android clients in the near future. Atlas is available to both free and paid ChatGPT users, but some automation features require a subscription. ...
AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M
Keycard Labs Inc., a startup that helps enterprises manage their artificial intelligence agents’ access to internal systems, launched today with $38 million from investors. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The initial $8 seed raise was led by Andreessen Horowitz and boldstart, while Acrew Capital led the subsequent $30 million Series A investment. ...
Coinbase acquires crypto investment platform Echo for $375M
Coinbase Global Inc. has acquired Echo, the operator of a platform that enables users to invest in crypto startups by buying their tokens. The deal values Echo at about $375 million. Coinbase plans to finance the acquisition with a combination of cash and stock. The transaction, which was announced this morning, marks the company’s eighth ...
Medical search engine startup OpenEvidence closes $200M investment led by GV
OpenEvidence Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence search engine for doctors, today announced that it has closed a $200 million investment. The Series C round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund. Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Blackstone, Thrive Capital, Coatue, Bond and Craft participated as well. OpenEvidence is now worth $6.5 million, up from $3.5 ...
AI agent tooling provider LangChain raises $125M at $1.25B valuation
LangChain Inc., a startup that helps developers build artificial intelligence agents, has raised $125 million in funding at a $1.25 billion valuation. Fortune reported today that IVP led the Series B investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s growth-stage CapitalG fund, ServiceNow Ventures, Workday Ventures, Cisco Investments, Datadog, Databricks and several others. LangChain develops an ...
Hours-long AWS outage takes numerous services offline – but it’s fixed now
Updated: An outage in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s North Virginia data center cluster disrupted numerous online services this morning, but by afternoon, AWS reported that the issues have been resolved. AWS disclosed the issue shortly after midnight PDT. Around the same time, users started losing access to ChatGPT, Disney+, Snapchat, Venmo, Perplexity and a long ...
Nvidia begins volume production of Blackwell chips in TSMC’s Arizona fab
Nvidia Corp. today announced that its Blackwell chips have entered volume production in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s Arizona fab. The news marks a major milestone in the graphics card maker’s efforts to bring more of its supply chain to the U.S. The graphics processing units are the chief engine of the current boom in artificial ...