TECH

‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something…

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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

Embattled surveillance technology company Flock Safety unveiled a “generous” severance package for voluntary employee departures on Friday, according to a…

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Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform

Voice AI has emerged as one of the hottest sectors in AI, with investors pouring in billions of dollars to…

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Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic

Deven Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are loud on…

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Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play

Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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