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Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales and startup shutdown this year, experts say

Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales...

When accounting startup Bench abruptly failed last month, the shutdown was force...

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India pledges fresh billion for startups

India pledges fresh billion for startups

India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while...

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Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger

Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says Deep...

Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more wi...

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OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion

OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion

OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the pe...

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Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source

Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of histo...

To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executi...

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Autonomous vehicle testing in California dropped 50%. Here’s why.

Autonomous vehicle testing in California dropped 50%. H...

Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes...

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a depositi...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsu...

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Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund

Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raise...

When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conv...

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Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies

Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner wor...

People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner work...

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‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks

‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over Chin...

Some companies are blocking DeepSeek over concerns their data will end up with t...

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MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research

MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive s...

MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platfo...

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OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI "reasoning" model, o3-mini, the latest in the...

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Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultur...

The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift...

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This investor wants you to sign an NDA to build Legos together

This investor wants you to sign an NDA to build Legos t...

Investor, former GitHub CEO, and all around Tech Guy™ Nat Friedman has posted a ...

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Stablecoins are finding product market fit in emerging markets

Stablecoins are finding product market fit in emerging ...

Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest...

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Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom

Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-buildi...

The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambit...