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Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch

Eric Wu built and ran Opendoor, one of the more ambitious real estate startups of the last decade, before stepping away in 2022 after fast-rising

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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to

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Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company. Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four

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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation

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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it.

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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

Anthropic’s revenue continues to not only grow at an historic pace but also to accelerate. The model maker’s annualized revenue run rate — a projection

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Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up

PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale — of itself. The prospect first popped in July when Stripe

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India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand

As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu has seized the boom, raising $93 million

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source