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Elon Musk says latest version of Trump’s budget bill is ‘utterly insane’ and will destroy clean energy sector
Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has slammed the latest version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.” In a post on his social media platform X, Musk lambasted lawmakers, saying the Senate’s new draft bill would eliminate millions of jobs in the U.S. and cause “immense strategic harm” ...
HPE finally gets green light to buy Juniper and take on Cisco in AI networking
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has finally been allowed to proceed with its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. after settling a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ had tried to block the deal from going ahead by filing its lawsuit in January, arguing it would significantly harm competition in the ...
Report: DeepSeek’s newest model delayed by GPU export restrictions
China’s top artificial intelligence company DeepSeek Ltd. has reportedly come unstuck in its efforts to develop its next-generation R2 reasoning model, because it cannot get its hands on enough of Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units, according to a report. The Information cited two anonymous sources who are familiar with DeepSeek’s efforts as saying that the ...
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff says AI now does up to half of all the work at his company
Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff says his company is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence, using the technology to automate dozens of workloads that were, until recently, done by humans. In an interview with Bloomberg, Benioff (pictured) said AI agents are now performing as much as 30% to 50% of all the ...
DataBahn raises $17M to automate data pipeline management with AI agents
Intelligent data pipeline startup DataBahn LLC said today it has closed on a $17 million early-stage funding round. The Series A round was led by Forgepoint Capital and saw participation from S3 Ventures and GTM Capital, bringing its total amount raised to date to $19 million. The startup has developed a data pipeline platform based ...
AI hiring startup Metaview raises $35M to automate recruiters’ admin work
Artificial intelligence recruitment platform startup Metaview Labs Inc. has snagged $35 million in funding from investors including Google Ventures, building on a $7 million Series A investment that was closed one year earlier. Plural, Vertex Ventures, Seedcamp, Coelius Capita, True Equity and angel investors such as Victor Riparbelli and Barney Hussey-Yeo also participated in the ...
Prediction market startup Kalshi raises $185M as rival Polymarket closes on $200M round
The blockchain-based prediction market startup Kalshi Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $185 million funding round led by the cryptocurrency-focused venture capital firm Paradigm, bringing its value to $2 billion. The round, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, also saw participation from Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital and Citadel Securities ...
Micron generates massive profits as AI fuels demand for high-bandwidth memory
Micron Technology Inc. delivered solid profits today thanks to rampant demand for artificial intelligence chips that drove record quarterly revenue, but it wasn’t enough to move the needle in its stock price, which remained flat after-hours. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.91 per share, trouncing the analysts’ forecast ...
Reasoner’s AI sentiment analysis app can understand what people think but don’t actually say
Artificial intelligence startup Reasoner today launched a new sentiment analysis tool for video calling applications that goes beyond simply taking notes of meetings and analyzing what was said. According to the company, it uses AI to study the people who are participating and surface insights into their “unspoken reactions,” to understand what they’re really thinking. The ...
Eventual launches with $30M in funding to streamline multimodal data processing
Multimodal data processing startup Eventual Inc. is looking to transform the way companies deal with unstructured data after closing on $30 million in venture capital funding. The startup said today it has closed on the $20 million Series A funding round led by Astasia Myers from Felicis, with strategic participation from M12 Ventures and Citi. ...