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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Julie Bort 1 month ago

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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.

Jagmeet Singh 1 month ago

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Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.

Jagmeet Singh 1 month ago

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Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5 million SEC settlement

The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now called X) has come to an end.

Lucas Ropek 1 month ago

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Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

Marina Temkin 1 month ago

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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."

Kirsten Korosec 1 month ago

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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

Russell Brandom 1 month ago

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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.

Anna Heim 1 month ago

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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major U.S. expansion

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

Kirsten Korosec 1 month ago

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

Lucas Ropek 1 month ago

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‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

Amanda Silberling 1 month ago

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This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

Rebecca Bellan 1 month ago

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Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

Aisha Malik 1 month ago

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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time&...

Theresa Loconsolo 1 month ago

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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

Ivan Mehta 1 month ago

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Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups

For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.

Marina Temkin 1 month ago

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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

Zack Whittaker 1 month ago

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These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Marina Temkin 1 month ago

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Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. 

Rebecca Bellan 1 month ago

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Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Tim Fernholz 1 month ago

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