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Clay Labs Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make business-to-business sales teams more productive, today announced that it has raised $115 million in funding. Wellington Management led the Series D round. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s growth-stage CapitalG fund, Sequoia, …
Harvey raises $550M more to develop AI tools for legal teams
Six months after its last nine-figure funding round, Harvey AI Corp. today announced that it has raised $550 million at $15.5 billion valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal. They were joined by more than a dozen other backers, including …
Anthropic researcher’s resignation sparks broad AI safety discussion
An Anthropic PBC researcher has resigned over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives.” Jacob Coxon was part of the company’s AI pretraining team until today. He announced his resignation in a series of X posts that has been …
Celero reels in $275M for its coherent digital signal processors
Celero Communications Inc., a startup that develops data center networking chips, today announced that it has raised $275 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund, Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners. Returning backers Sutter Hill …
Qualcomm inks AI chip, optical networking deal with Amazon
Qualcomm Inc. today announced that it has won a contract to supply Amazon.com Inc. with artificial intelligence chips and networking hardware. The deal is part of a broader partnership that also extends to other areas. Qualcomm has issued a stock warrant that …
Open-source AI developer Mistral closes €3B funding round
French artificial intelligence lab Mistral AI SAS today announced that it has raised €3 billion, or about $3.49 billion, in funding. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. led the investment. It was joined by more than two dozen other backers including Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia …
OpenAI chief scientist argues for AI research slowdown
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published on Sunday, after other prominent industry figures have expressed similar views in recent months. Pachocki argues that leading AI labs should voluntarily pace their model …
Hackers steal $320M in bitcoin from Liquid Network, return most of it after patch
Hackers stole about $320 million worth of bitcoin over the weekend from a blockchain platform called the Liquid Network. In a somewhat unusual development, the attackers returned most of the haul earlier today. They retained 598 of the 4,000 stolen bitcoin, or …
Hyperspectral satellite startup Pixxel nabs $100M investment
Pixxel Space Technologies Inc., an India-based developer of Earth observation satellites, has raised $100 million in funding. Singapore’s Temasek wealth fund and space technology investor Seraphim led the Series C round. Pixxel stated in its announcement of the deal today that the …
Anthropic uses Claude to formalize proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
Anthropic PBC has used Claude to create a computer-verifiable version of a famous, highly complicated mathematical proof. The company detailed the project in a blog post published today. A proof is a series of arguments that proves a mathematical hypothesis is correct. …