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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
The actor and investor is joining forces with Morgan Beller, who was previously a GP at NFX, to invest in early-stage st...
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Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabi...
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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in ea...
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI tra...
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Deploying retail AI to scale personalisation and customer insight
Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer i...
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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and su...
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Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and i...
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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move wo...
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Japan’s answer to its worker shortage: An AI model for 10 million robots
Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed...
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Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance
The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments,...
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Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal e...