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Caresyntax raises $180M for its surgical data management platform
Caresyntax Inc., a startup that helps surgeons provide better patient care, has raised $180 million from investors to enhance its technology. The company detailed today the capital infusion came as an extension to a Series C round it had originally closed in 2021. The bulk of the financing, $100 million, was provided as equity funding ...
Snowflake launches AI-powered Cortex Analyst query generator into public preview
Snowflake Inc. today announced the public preview of Cortex Analyst, a new tool that allows users to analyze records in its cloud data platform with natural language prompts. Workers often consume business information in the form of dashboards. Typically, fixing an issue in a dashboard or carrying out an analysis that it doesn’t support out ...
Kiteworks raises $456M to secure file transfers in the enterprise
Kiteworks Inc., a startup that helps enterprises prevent unauthorized access to their data, has secured a $456 million funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The company disclosed the investment today. Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth provided the capital. TechCrunch, citing data from PitchBook, reported the deal included at least $228 million in equity ...
Elon Musk’s xAI debuts new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini language models
Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. has debuted two new language models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, that it claims can perform some tasks with similar accuracy to OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The models rolled out to X on Tuesday. Later this month, they will also become available to developers through an application programming interface. The API will make it ...
Federal appeals court rules that geofence warrants are unconstitutional
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants, which allow police to collect data on individuals’ whereabouts, violate the Fourth Amendment. TechCrunch reported the decision today. Geofence warrants enable law enforcement officials to identify who was in the vicinity of a crime scene when the offense was committed. In ...
RISC-V chip startup Akeana launches with $100M+ in funding
Akeana USA Inc., a startup that develops chips based on the RISC-V processor architecture, launched today with more than $100 million in initial funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and Fidelity. The funding will put Akeana in a better position to drive demand for its product line, a ...
Elon Musk’s X conversation with Donald Trump marred by technical failures
Elon Musk’s interview with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump kicked off more than 40 minutes late on Monday after X, which hosted the conversation, experienced technical issues. Musk had planned to start the broadcast at 8 p.m. EDT. Instead of launching at the scheduled time, the stream started playing low-quality background music that continued for ...
Ragie launches with $5.5M in funding to ease RAG application development
Ragie Corp., a new startup that helps developers build retrieval-augmented generation applications, launched today with $5.5 million in seed funding. Craft Ventures, Saga VC, Chapter One and Valor provided the capital. Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is a machine learning technique that makes it easier for large language models to learn new information. In the past, ...
Waymo to start testing fully autonomous vehicles on San Francisco freeways
Waymo LLC will start testing its autonomous vehicles on San Francisco freeways later this week without a human driver aboard. The move, which TechCrunch reported today, marks the latest milestone in the Alphabet Inc. unit’s efforts to build a large-scale autonomous ride-hailing service. Waymo started carrying out similar freeway tests in Phoenix earlier this year. ...
UK antitrust watchdog launches inquiry into Synopsys’ $35B Ansys acquisition
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, is looking into Synopsys Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Ansys Inc. for $35 billion. The antitrust regulator announced its inquiry today. To determine whether Ansys’ sale may hurt market competition in the U.K., the CMA has asked interested parties to submit feedback about the deal. Such requests for ...