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Google adds reusable prompts to Gemini in Chrome
Google LLC is enhancing the version of its Gemini assistant that is embedded in Chrome with a new time-saving tool called Skills. The capability started rolling out today. It’s accessible on Mac, Windows and ChromeOS when Chrome’s language is set to U.S. English. Earlier this year, Google upgraded its popular browser with a sidebar that ...
OpenAI acquires AI financial planning startup Hiro Finance
OpenAI Group PBC has acquired Hiro Finance Inc., a low-profile startup with an artificial intelligence tool for creating financial plans. Hiro announced the deal on Monday without disclosing its financial terms. The company raised an unspecified amount of funding from Ribbit, General Catalyst and Restive prior to the acquisition. Hiro’s service speeds up the task ...
Amazon to acquire internet satellite operator Globalstar for $11.6B
Amazon.com Inc. has inked a $11.6 billion deal to acquire Globalstar Inc., a publicly traded operator of internet satellites. The companies announced the transaction today. It values Globalstar at $90 per share, a 23% premium to the satellite operator’s last unaffected closing price. The acquisition is set to close in 2027 subject to regulatory approvals ...
Amazon debuts high-speed satellite internet antenna for commercial aircraft
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a ruggedized antenna that will enable commercial aircraft to access its internet satellites. The Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna can download up to 1 gigabit of data per second and upload 400 megabits. According to the company, those speeds make the device the fastest customer terminal currently in production. The Leo Aviation ...
Electric pickup truck startup Slate Auto raises $650M in funding
Slate Auto Inc., a startup that plans to make electric pickup trucks based on a cost-optimized design, has closed a $650 million funding round. The company stated in its announcement of the Series C round today that TWG Global was the lead investor. According to TechCrunch, Slate previously raised about $750 million from a consortium ...
Report: Cisco could acquire AI agent security startup Astrix Security for $250M+
Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in talks to buy Astrix Security Ltd., a startup that helps companies secure their artificial intelligence agents. The Information today cited sources as saying that the deal could be worth between $250 million and $350 million. That’s about three times the amount of funding Astrix has raised to date. The ...
CoreWeave inks multiyear cloud deal with Anthropic
CoreWeave Inc. today announced that it has won a multiyear contract to supply Anthropic PBC with cloud infrastructure. The company’s shares closed 11% higher on the news. The data center capacity commissioned by Anthropic developer will start coming online later this year. CoreWeave said the infrastructure will “support the development and deployment of Anthropic’s Claude.” ...
AI training data startup AfterQuery nabs $30M investment
Artificial intelligence data provider AfterQuery Inc. has raised $30 million in funding at a $300 million valuation. The startup disclosed in its Thursday announcement of the deal that Altos Ventures was the lead investor. Y Combinator, The Raine Group and BoxGroup chipped in as well. San Francisco-based AfterQuery provides datasets that AI developers use to ...
RISC-V chip design startup SiFive nabs $400M investment
SiFive Inc., a startup that sells chip designs based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, has raised $400 million in funding at a $3.65 billion valuation. Atreides Management led the Series G round. SiFive said in today’s funding announcement that Nvidia Corp., enterprise technology investor Apollo and other institutional backers contributed as well. The company’s total ...
Intel inks multiyear data center chip partnership with Google
Google LLC will adopt multiple future iterations of Intel Corp.’s Xeon processor series as part of a collaboration announced today. Shares of the chipmaker closed 4.7% higher on the news. Google will deploy the chips in its cloud platform. They will power artificial intelligence models and general-purpose workloads. Google Cloud already uses Xeon 6, Intel’s ...