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for startupsTechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates everDatabricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platformDoti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silosSales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memesLindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platformMicrosoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud providerOpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center projectScale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AIPerplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI searchMistral AI plans IPOUK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAIAnthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for ClaudePresident Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive 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