July 17, 2024 - SiliconANGLE

NEWS

Chip stocks suffer biggest single-day loss on threat of tougher restrictions on Chinese exports

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2024

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index saw more than $500 billion in value wiped out from its stocks today, posting its worst single-day performance since 2020. The fall came after a Bloomberg report said the United…

NEWS

Co-founders of Andreessen Horowitz give full support to Trump campaign

By James Farrell Jul 17, 2024

Billionaires Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, co-founders of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital firm, have announced their support for Donald Trump’s reelection bid, stating they will make hefty donations to his campaign. “The future…

Apps

Figma confirms undisclosed funding round that brings its value to $12.5B

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2024

Collaborative design software startup Figma Inc. today confirmed it has closed on a significant funding round led by a group of investors including Coatue Management, Alkeon Capital Management and General Catalyst Partners. The size…

AI

OpenAI researchers pit two AI models against each other in a game of deception to improve AI explainability

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2024

OpenAI today published a research paper that outlines a new way to improve the clarity and explainability of responses from generative artificial intelligence models. The approach is designed to improve confidence in AI systems…

NEWS

15M email addresses stolen from Atlassian’s Trello shared on hacking forum

By Duncan Riley Jul 17, 2024

Atlassian Corp.-owned list-making application Trello has suffered a data breach with names and emails of over 15 million users shared on BreachForums. Bleeping Computer reports that the data related to a breach that first…

Cloud

Retirement startup Human Interest valued at $1.33B in new $267M financing round

By Maria Deutscher Jul 17, 2024

Human Interest Inc., a startup that helps employees at small and medium-sized businesses save for retirement, has raised $267 million in fresh financing. The company announced the investment today. It detailed that the deal…

AI

Nvidia joins $80M funding round for Israeli AI disease model company CytoReason

By Duncan Riley Jul 17, 2024

Israeli artificial intelligence disease model company CytoReason Ltd. today said it has raised $80 million in new funding in a round that included Nvidia Corp. to expand the application of its models, grow its molecular…

AI

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li reportedly raises $100M for new spatial intelligence startup

By Maria Deutscher Jul 17, 2024

World Labs, a new startup founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Fei-Fei Li, has reportedly raised about $100 million in funding. The Financial Times reported the investment today. According to the paper’s sources, World…

Cloud

Report: GitHub rival GitLab could be acquired by Datadog

By Maria Deutscher Jul 17, 2024

GitLab Inc., a developer tooling provider that competes with Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit, is reportedly exploring a sale. Reuters today cited sources as saying that the publicly traded company has hired investment bankers to…

AI

AiXplain nabs $6.5M to simplify AI agent development

By Kyt Dotson Jul 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence development startup aiXplain Inc. said today it raised $6.5 million in a pre-Series A round to simplify building autonomous AI agents with its all-in-one studio for custom solutions. The company provides a…

Day: July 17, 2024

Chip stocks suffer biggest single-day loss on threat of tougher restrictions on Chinese exports

Co-founders of Andreessen Horowitz give full support to Trump campaign

OpenAI researchers pit two AI models against each other in a game of deception to improve AI explainability

15M email addresses stolen from Atlassian’s Trello shared on hacking forum

Retirement startup Human Interest valued at $1.33B in new $267M financing round

Nvidia joins $80M funding round for Israeli AI disease model company CytoReason

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li reportedly raises $100M for new spatial intelligence startup

Report: GitHub rival GitLab could be acquired by Datadog

AiXplain nabs $6.5M to simplify AI agent development

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