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New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

Few venture firms have bet more aggressively on AI than Sequoia Capital, and it isn’t slowing down. The Silicon Valley…

2 months ago

An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

An Amazon employee at the Troutdale, Oregon warehouse passed away at work last week, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch.…

2 months ago

NASA Artemis II splashes down in Pacific Ocean in ‘perfect’ landing for Moon mission

After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the Moon a…

2 months ago

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget,…

2 months ago

Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars

Founders Fund has made its name backing what Peter Thiel calls “zero to one” companies — businesses that don’t just…

2 months ago

De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack

Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident.  The crypto platform said…

3 months ago

Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

OpenAI’s decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the…

3 months ago

David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead

David Sacks has used up his days as Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Speaking with Bloomberg on Thursday, the…

3 months ago

Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick

Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense, is back in the spotlight over…

3 months ago

New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput

Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon’s assertion that…

3 months ago