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Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
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MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it
MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would …
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“It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI
Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audien…
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Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI
Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twi…
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SambaNova raises fresh funding at an $11bn valuation as the Nvidia-alternative trade heats up
SambaNova has raised fresh funding at an $11bn valuation, according to Bloomberg, capping a run in which the AI chip startup has r…
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UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet
Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her …
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Boredom is a business risk startups can’t afford to take
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‘I want to be the MrBeast of tech’: Why Max Tkacz left n8n to become a Youtube gameshow host
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$100m Alexa upgrade lays bare soaring cost of AI agents
Amazon is developing a multistep AI assistant called Moonraker, but the project's projected $100m annual compute bill underscores …
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AI agents stall in pilots as firms ignore organisational overhaul
Tech executives at a Paris summit warned that enterprise AI investments are failing to reach production because companies are skip…
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Fleek raises $25m to build the AI infrastructure behind global secondhand fashion
Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B fu…
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Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2bn valuation
Lovable, the Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300m at a $13.2bn post-money valuation, Sifted reports, citing two…
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A Telstra outage stopped Australian trains and froze taxi payments
For a few hours on Wednesday morning, chunks of Australia’s daily infrastructure simply stopped answering. A nationwide outage at …
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ResMed sells its MatrixCare software business to Frazier for $490m
ResMed has agreed to sell MatrixCare, its home-health and senior-care software business, to the private equity firm Frazier Health…
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OpenAI wins US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing
OpenAI has been cleared to release its most advanced model widely, after the US government signed off on a broader rollout of GPT-…
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Geopolitics shifts $75m Esports World Cup from Riyadh to Paris
The Esports World Cup has been hastily relocated to Paris due to Middle East security concerns, delivering a sudden economic boost…
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Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators
Perplexity has become one of the first big AI names to say it will build on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, the general-purpose chip Nvidia…
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Amazon $25bn bond sale flags limits of AI borrowing
Amazon’s record $25bn bond issue to fund AI infrastructure points to a maturing debt market where investors are growing more selec…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make runni…
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SambaNova raises $1bn to supply on-premises AI chips to banks
Silicon Valley chipmaker SambaNova has secured $1 billion in funding, signalling a broader enterprise shift away from big tech clo…
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Exclusive: Lovable in talks to raise $300m at $13.2bn valuation
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Exclusive: Accel doubles down on energy startup Axle
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The 25 companies Europe’s startup insiders watched most closely in H1
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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.