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Newly launched AI startup Humans& raises $480M round backed by Nvidia, GV
Humans& Inc., a three-month-old artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has closed a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation. The investment was led by SV Angel and Georges Harik, one of the company’s founders. Harik, an early Google LLC employee, helped develop several of the search giant’s core services. Google parent ...
AI chip developer FuriosaAI reportedly raising up to $500M
FuriosaAI Inc., a Seoul-based developer of artificial intelligence chips, is reportedly in talks to raise a new round of funding. Sources told Bloomberg today that the startup is seeking $300 million to $500 million. It has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley and Mirae Asset Securities, Korea’s largest investment bank, to help it close the round. The ...
NYSE previews platform for tokenized stock trading
The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch a trading venue that will enable investors to buy and sell tokenized stocks. The NYSE’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange Inc., announced the initiative today. A tokenized stock is a digital asset pegged to the share price of a publicly traded company. Tokenized stocks can also be tied ...
OpenAI reveals its data center capacity tripled to 1.9GW in 2025
OpenAI Group PBC on Sunday shared new information about its financial performance and data center construction efforts. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar disclosed in a blog post that its annualized recurring revenue topped $20 billion last year. That’s up from $6 billion in 2024 and $2 billion the year before. In the same time frame, ...
Meta to stop selling Quest headsets to businesses, discontinue multiple VR features
Meta Platforms Inc. will stop selling its Quest virtual reality headsets to business customers and discontinue a number of software services that run on the devices. The company announced the move on Thursday. The decision is not unexpected: Earlier this week, Meta laid off more than 1,000 staffers from the Reality Labs business unit that ...
OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT ads across free, Go tiers
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to display ads in ChatGPT. The company will start showing promoted offers to U.S. adults with free accounts in the coming weeks. Ads will also be displayed to consumers with a ChatGPT Go subscription. The plan, which became available in the U.S. today, costs less than half as much as ...
Database maker ClickHouse raises $400M, acquires AI observability startup Langfuse
Open-source database maker ClickHouse Inc. today announced that it has closed a $400 million late-stage funding round at a $15 billion valuation. The Series D investment, which comes about six months after the company’s previous raise, was led by Dragoneer. It was joined by GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price ...
OpenAI quietly launches ChatGPT Translate with support for 25 languages
OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT Translate, a free translation service hosted on a standalone web page. The rollout wasn’t accompanied by an announcement, which hints that the service may be a prototype. In July 2024, OpenAI launched a search engine called SearchGPT with the goal of collecting user feedback about its information retrieval features. ...
OpenAI invests in brain-computer interface developer Merge Labs
OpenAI Group PBC has invested in Merge Labs Inc., a startup developing hardware that will enable users to control computers with their thoughts. The large language model provider announced the deal today. Bloomberg described the investment as a $252 million seed round, while TechCrunch cited a source as saying that Merge Labs raised $250 million. Besides ...
TSMC tops revenue expectations amid strong demand for advanced nodes
Continuing its growth streak, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted fourth-quarter revenue and profit numbers that easily topped the consensus estimate. The company also disclosed that it plans to boost its capital expenditure significantly this year. TSMC’s revenue rose 20.5% year-over-year in the fourth quarter, to 1.046 trillion new Taiwan dollars, or $33.73 billion. Analysts ...