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Supabase reels in $200M for its open-source relational database
Database developer Supabase Inc. has raised $200 million in funding from a group of prominent investors at a $2 billion valuation. Fortune reported the investment today. The round included the participation of Accel, Coatue, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures and Felicis. The venture capital firms were joined by multiple angel investors, including OpenAI Chief Product Officer ...
Cycode introduces new cybersecurity features for development teams
Cycode Ltd. today introduced a set of new features designed to help development teams ensure that their code is secure. The enhancements are rolling out for the company’s flagship ASPM, or application security posture management, platform. It helps developers scan new software for vulnerabilities before releasing it to production. Cycode spots issues across custom code, ...
Ocient raises $42.1M more for its speedy data analytics platform
Ocient Inc., a startup with an analytics platform that can run some queries 100 times faster than competing systems, today announced that it has raised $42.1 million in funding. The cash infusion marks the second extension of a Series B round the company first closed in 2021. The original $40 million investment was increased to ...
FTC sues Uber over Uber One subscription billing practices
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today sued Uber Technologies Inc. over a subscription service that it offers to customers of its ride-hailing and food delivery apps. Uber One, as the offering is called, had 30 million users as of Dec. 31. For $9.99 per month, the company waives delivery fees on orders that exceed a ...
Paul Graham criticizes Palantir over ‘ImmigrationOS’ contract with ICE
Prominent tech investor Paul Graham has criticized Palantir Technologies Inc. over a software contract it recently won from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Graham shared an article about the contract in a Thursday post on X. He wrote that “it’s a very exciting time in tech right now. If you’re a first-rate programmer, there ...
AI interpretability startup Goodfire raises $50M in funding
Goodfire AI Inc., a startup that helps developers understand how their large language models work, has raised $50 million in funding to support research initiatives. The company announced the Series A round on Thursday. Menlo Ventures led the investment with participation from Anthropic PBC, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other backers. The cash infusion comes six ...
TSMC tops first-quarter expectations amid continued AI demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. customers ordered fewer mobile chips in the first quarter than a year earlier, but the company’s revenue nevertheless managed to top expectations. TSMC today posted sales of 839.25 billion New Taiwanese dollars, or $25.8 billion, for the three months ended March 31. That’s up 41.6% from the same time a year ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Beijing following US chip export restrictions
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang visited Beijing today to meet with Chinese officials and the chipmaker’s local customers. According to the Financial Times, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng was among the clients who participated in the discussions. DeepSeek rose to prominence earlier this year after it released a reasoning model called R1. The algorithm, ...
Court rules against Google in advertising technology antitrust case
A federal court today found that Google LLC maintains an illegal monopoly in the advertising technology market. The decision comes less than a year after a similar antitrust ruling against the Alphabet Inc. unit’s search business. In August, a different court determined that Google had breached competition rules with its search and search advertising services. ...
Auradine raises $153M to develop bitcoin mining and AI networking hardware
Data center hardware startup Auradine Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $153 million in a Series C funding round. The investment was led by StepStone Group with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures and several other backers. Auradine’s total outside funding now stands at over $300 million. It disclosed on the occasion that ...