Author: Julie Bort

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AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch |

January 30, 2026
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In Brief Posted: 4:13 PM pst · January 26, Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has…

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AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names |

January 29, 2026
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Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate, and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B round…

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Microsoft gained $7.6B from OpenAI last quarter |

January 29, 2026
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2:47 PM PST · January 28, 2026 Microsoft and OpenAI may have a notoriously rocky relationship but as OpenAI experiences never-before-seen revenue growth, Microsoft, one…

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Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama |

January 29, 2026
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Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

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Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama |

January 29, 2026
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Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

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Anduril has invented a wild new drone-flying contest where jobs are the prize  |

January 28, 2026
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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up, and he talks a mile a minute, when discussing his company’s new recruiting event:theAI Grand Prix. This is…

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The Rippling/Deel corporate spying scandal may have taken another wild turn |

January 24, 2026
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The Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into HR and payroll startup Deel over allegations that it hired a corporate spy to…

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Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding is the fighter jets |

January 23, 2026
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5:31 pm ps · January 22, Defense tech company Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus…

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Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference |

January 22, 2026
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12:34 pm ps · January 21, 2026 AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted by the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems…

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OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST   |

January 22, 2026
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In Brief Posted: 10:01 am ps · January 21, VCs who have backed OpenEvidence are apparently not worried about new health information products from OpenAI…