Years ago, when venture capitalist Jon Medved took an interest in backing various health tech startups, he had no idea that one day, he would…
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Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation |
Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday that he had launched a new startup — the worst-kept secret in the tech world — though…
Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2 |
4:18 PM PST · December 11, 2025 Google released on Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed…
Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage |
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side hustle called Backstage. Backstage is an open source project…
Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund |
Tiger Global, the investor that spurred the VC bull market of 2020-2021, is reportedly raising a fresh $2.2 billion fund. The firm sent a letter…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed |
In Brief Posted: 4:00 AM PST · December 2, 2025 Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire…
AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal |
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PST · November 18, 2025 AI data center provider Lambda announced Tuesday it raised $1.5 billion in a round led…
Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund |
Chris Sacca’s venture firmLowercarbonCapital is raising a second fund to back nuclearfusion energy hopefuls, the VC said at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit onThursday,as reported…
AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition — it buys Python notebook Marimo |
11:53 AM PDT · October 31, 2025 Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was…
AI researchers 'embodied' an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams |
The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published…