Trending News: Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AILawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warnsTrump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rulesWill Musk vs. Trump affect xAI’s $5 billion debt deal?Week in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to WindsurfBuilding More Scalable GenAI Applications for Startups and DevelopersBuilding Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with StartupsThe best ways to build on top of foundation models, with DeepMind, Twelve Labs, and AmazonDisruption playbook: How to beat AI incumbents at their own gameAI startups take to the stage to pitch their companies to a panel of judges2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTOAnthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trustWhy investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicatedFigure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech 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Trending News: Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AILawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warnsTrump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rulesWill Musk vs. Trump affect xAI’s $5 billion debt deal?Week in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to WindsurfBuilding More Scalable GenAI Applications for Startups and DevelopersBuilding Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with StartupsThe best ways to build on top of foundation models, with DeepMind, Twelve Labs, and AmazonDisruption playbook: How to beat AI incumbents at their own gameAI startups take to the stage to pitch their companies to a panel of judges2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTOAnthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trustWhy investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicatedFigure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conferenceInside Anthropic’s AI ambitions with Jared KaplanEleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain textHumans provide necessary ‘checks and balances’ for AI, says Lattice CEOAMD acqui-hires the employees behind Untether AIOpenAI’s marketing head takes leave to undergo breast cancer treatmentCursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARRPerplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO saysAnthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and roboticsGoogle says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at codingThe founder of DeviantArt is making a $22,000 display for digital artAnthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customersCollibra acquires data access startup RaitoTechCrunch Sessions: AI launches in Berkeley today — here’s what you’ll miss if you’re not hereToma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16zX changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its contentAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plansNorth America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environmentHugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBookKlarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer serviceReddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training dataSnap launches Lens Studio iOS and web apps for creating AR Lenses with AI and simple toolsAMD takes aim at Nvidia’s AI hardware dominance with Brium acquisitionUnity CTO Steve Collins steps down after six monthsGoogle delays rollout of its ‘Ask Photos’ AI search featureChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and moreRosebud lands $6M to scale its interactive AI journaling appMistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral CodeTechCrunch Sessions: AI begins tomorrow — today’s your last chance to save on ticketsObvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe driversFinal hours for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — play now, score 2-for-1 ticketsOne of Africa’s most successful founders is back with a new AI startup and already raised $9MWindsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI modelsAnthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversightThe OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movieYoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety labInside TechCrunch Sessions AI: Learn how Toyota and NLX use AI to parse millions of tech docs, with NLX CEO Andrei PapanceaDeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest modelDay 6 of 7: TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — flex your brain, score 2-for-1 tickets4 days left: Time — and space — are almost up to exhibit at TechCrunch All StageWispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortlessJust 2 days until TechCrunch 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Databricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’

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Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation. The San Francisco-based company also added a further $5.25 billion in debt financing, funded by JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, among other “leading financial institutions and alternative […]

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