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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 orderUK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracyFriend delays shipments of its AI companion pendantOpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing releaseAt the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnelDeepSeek 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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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