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AI post-training startup Bespoke Labs raises $40M in funding
Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised $40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in two tranches. Bespoke Labs raised the bulk of the funds, $31.75 million, through a Series A round led by Wing VC. The firm was joined ...
Smart glasses startup Even Realities raises $150M
Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised $150 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest food delivery provider. WeChat parent company Tencent Inc. participated as well. Even Realities’ flagship product is a $599 pair of smart glasses called the ...
AI data center builder Crusoe reportedly raising $3B at $30B valuation
Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a $3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at $30 billion. That’s about three times what Crusoe was worth last year. The report didn’t name the investors that may participate in the new ...
Chipmakers urge White House to avoid broad memory market interventions
A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment and materials companies as well as chipmakers. Bloomberg reported late Thursday that the association had outlined its concerns about the memory market ...
Meta to release new AI model with advanced coding capabilities ‘soon’
Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update will roll out “soon.” The announcement came a few hours after Business Insider reported that the new algorithm is competitive with GPT-5.5 ...
Anthropic reportedly in talks with Samsung to manufacture custom AI chip
Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce a custom artificial intelligence chip. The Information today cited sources as saying that the discussions are in an early stage. According to the publication, Anthropic has not yet finalized key details such as what workloads the processor will run and its performance. Some ...
OpenAI could reportedly give 5% stake to US government
OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during talks with Trump administration officials. According to the report, the discussions are at an early stage. The development doesn’t come as a complete ...
Microsoft launches AI-focused professional services business with $2.5B investment
Microsoft Corp. has formed a new business that will help organizations build and manage artificial intelligence applications. The Microsoft Frontier Company, as the venture is called, launched today with an initial $2.5 billion investment from the tech giant. It’s staffed by 6,000 “industry and engineering experts.” The group is led by Microsoft Corp. executive Rodrigo ...
AI stock trading startup EquiLibre raises funding at a $500M+ valuation
Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding $500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by Creandum, a Stockholm-based startup fund. The size of the raise was not disclosed. However, Creandum Vice President Cameron Sellers told TechCrunch that the firm’s investment was ...
Meta shares jump 9% on reported plan to offer AI infrastructure services
Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not used by its internal workloads. The news sent Meta’s shares 8.8% higher, while AI cloud provider CoreWeave Holdings Inc. closed 13.9% lower. Nebius Group NV, a competing ...