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efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissanceViral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model familyAI startup DeepSeek pauses signups amid cyber incidentMeta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responsesGrok 3 seemingly went live for some usersTechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 5 Days left to claim your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rate of the yearMistral’s origin story has an insuretech founder at its heartDeepSeek ‘punctures’ tech spending plans, and what analysts are sayingDeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talkingWhy Reid Hoffman feels optimistic about our AI futureWill states lead the way on AI regulation?Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AIIn motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First AmendmentAI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertaintyElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources sayStargate will use solar and 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Reid Hoffman’s Manas AI raises $24.6M, a fraction of other AI drug discovery startups

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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer researcher and author of the book “The Emperor of All Maladies,” have co-founded an AI-powered drug discovery startup, Manas AI. The company, which will initially focus on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma, has raised $24.6 million in seed funding from Hoffman, General Catalyst, and Greylock. Manas […]

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