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AMD to Buy AI Chip Startup Taalas
AMD has reached a deal to buy the AI chip startup Taalas at undisclosed terms. AMD said that the deal would strengthen its long-term AI ambitions by adding a differentiated inference technology and engineering expertise. Founded in 2023 and based…
Defense Startup: AI Turns 2 Months Of Engineering Into 20 Minutes
Atlas Motion makes motors and actuators for drones and robots, and just raised $11.5 million. Drone and robot motor startup Atlas Motion is emerging from stealth today with $11.5 million in funding and an astonishing claim: it can design new…
This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind
In 1908, a Columbia University psychiatry professor named Frederick Peterson claimed to have built a “psychometer”—a contraption which he said could read people's thoughts using, among other components, a mirror and a lamp.
AMD buys chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup that makes chips for inference. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model. The deal comes just over seven months after Nvidia bought assets from startup Groq…
A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million
Zach Oldham, cofounder of the adtech startup Gravity, thinks AI ads will eventually become the world's largest advertising channel. His company just secured fresh funds to pursue the opportunity he sees in both ads designed to appeal to humans on…
This YC startup raised $5 million for a personal assistant to help you stay on top of your text messages
It's hard to be a good texter these days. Between the default texting services and inboxes galore — WhatsApp, Instagram, email, you name it — messages are bound to fall through the cracks. Pally, a Y-Combinator startup that launched…
Wool is a Tale as Old as Time. This Startup Wants To Tell It.
When the founder behind a proposed digital passport for wool attended India's largest global textile trade called Bharat Tex, she received so many queries she was almost overwhelmed. “My inbox is inundated with manufacturers, wool buyers…
Environmental groups challenge FCC approval of startup's plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space
Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse approval of a startup's plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project's potential…
Northwood Space's Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups
In 2002—the year Elon Musk founded SpaceX—the notion of a space startup was far-fetched at best, a doomed wild goose chase at worst. Now, SpaceX is a public company with a trillion-plus market cap that just reported its first…
Family offices back clean energy and sustainability startups in July as dealmaking holds steady
Private investment firms of the ultrawealthy made 57 direct investments in companies in July, per Fintrx. Clean energy and sustainability startups made up more than 15% of investments, with backers including billionaires John Doerr, Lukas Walton…
US microreactor startup Valar Atomics raises $1B
Valar Atomics, a three-year-old microreactor developer that has a forged a close relationship with the Trump administration, has raised $1 billion in its Series B funding round as investors increasingly bet that the White House's overhaul of…
Rejected By 100 Investors, CEO Built A $4 Billion AI Startup Before ChatGPT Boom
Victor Riparbelli was almost too early to the AI era. Years before ChatGPT sparked the global artificial intelligence boom, one entrepreneur was already convinced that AI-generated video would transform business communication. Few investors shared…
Chinese launch startup Orienspace targets IPO, secures funding for reusable Gravity-2 rocket
HELSINKI — Commercial launch company Orienspace has kicked off preparations for an IPO coaching process while closing a funding round for accelerating its reusable Gravity-2 rocket. The Shandong-based company, formally known as Orienspace…
What is Discovery Loop, AI startup launched by Google DeepMind's top researchers?
6 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Jeff Dean, the chief scientist at Google DeepMind, is leaving the company to launch a new AI startup called Discovery Loop, along with three other top-tier Google AI researchers. Having worked…
We had to completely rethink how we build pickups': Inside the $28,350 Ford Fathom truck's bold bet against low-cost EV startups
Western legacy automakers are facing a lot of pressure. Overseas, EV makers are churning out high-tech electric vehicles faster and cheaper than ever. Back home, startups like Slate Auto are grabbing attention with stripped-down $25,000 electric…
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