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Dream Labs, a startup trying to make robots more intelligent and capable of performing many different tasks, has raised $90 million in seed funding to coincide with the launch of a public application programming interface that provides access to its universal robot …
AI work assistant startup Town secures unicorn status after raising $108M just weeks after launching
Town.com Inc., an artificial intelligence agent startup laser focused on getting work done by collaborating with other AI agents, revealed today that it has raised $108 million in a new funding at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was led …
Motive Technologies revs up new AI Agents to automate fleet management
Motive Technologies Inc. is pushing the needle for fleet management automation with the launch of a new artificial intelligence offering called Agents today. As the name strongly hints at, Motive’s Agents are autonomous AI agents designed to take a more proactive approach …
Chip legend Jim Keller’s Tenstorrent raises $1.5B to expand its open compute ecosystem
Artificial intelligence computing hardware startup Tenstorrent Inc. is pushing hard to position itself as an alternative to Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units after raising a massive $1.5 billion in a late-stage funding round today. The Series E round was jointly led by …
Neocloud operator Nscale’s IPO plans could be at risk after Microsoft cancels UK data center project
British neocloud startup Nscale Global Holdings Ltd.’s plans to launch an initial public offering in the U.S. have suffered a massive setback after its biggest customer Microsoft Corp. pulled out of a critical data center deal this weekend. A report in The …
North.cloud bags $60M in funding to help businesses keep runaway cloud costs in check
A startup called North Cloud Holdings Inc. says it’s going to help companies prevent the costs of cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure spiraling out of control after raising $60 million in funding today. The Series B round was led by PeakSpan …
Perplexity AI open-sources its secure AI agent sandbox SPACE
The artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI Inc. is shifting its focus to AI agent security in the wake of several high-profile incidents that saw autonomous systems escape from secure environments and go on to wreak havoc on third-party websites. The …
Ahead of IPO, Anthropic reveals its revenue grew 45% sequentially to $16.8B in Q3
Anthropic PBC pulled in $16.8 billion in revenue during the third quarter, according to a report today by the Financial Times — and also achieved profitability on an adjusted basis for the first time. The revelations came at a private meeting between …
Multiple states sue OpenAI, accusing it of harming children and deceiving parents
Eight U.S. states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI Group PBC, accusing the artificial intelligence startup of marketing an unsafe product in ChatGPT. The lawsuits filed by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana allege that ChatGPT has harmed multiple …
Salience Labs raises $125M after showcasing world’s most advanced, fully optical circuit-switching tech
A startup called Salience Labs Inc. wants to play a bigger role in speeding up artificial intelligence workloads after raising $125 million in a Series B funding. Today’s round was led by Bullhound Capital and saw the two of the chipmaking industry’s …