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Lindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’

A four-year-old London startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised a $55 million Series B round as it sets about “fixing the broken clinical trial industry.” The announcement comes as…

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Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform

Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize an area where businesses are sinking…

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Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. Coinciding with the announcement of Stargate, OpenAI’s massive new…

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OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. The joint venture,…

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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI

Scale AI’s CEO Alexandr Wang has five recommendations for President Trump to keep the US ahead of China on AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search

Perplexity on Tuesday launched an API service called Sonar, allowing enterprises and developers to build the startup’s generative AI search tools into their own applications. “While most generative AI features…

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Mistral AI plans IPO

French AI lab, Mistral, is working toward an initial public offering, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos.…

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UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI

Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch…

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Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more…

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President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order

During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to…

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UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy

A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details around how this will take shape in the public…

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Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship…

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OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation…

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At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel

An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned with a six-pack abs. In a new piece, The New…

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DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is…

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Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025

The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions…

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AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources say

The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats: Certain startups continue to struggle and are looking for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has…

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The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI…

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