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AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI startup for $8.2 billion
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded by industry pioneer and researcher Fei-Fei Li. The all-stock transaction is expected to close by the end of the…
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse. But CISOs worried about securing swarms of agents suddenly operating across networks are…
Anthropic's path from AI startup to industry-defining IPO
Sept 28: Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, laid out a sweeping vision in which AI would reshape the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, as the Claude maker moved closer to what could…
Nvidia alumni are fueling a new wave of robotics startups
Nvidia helped build the foundation for physical AI. Now, many of its veterans are launching the next wave of robotics startups. The chip giant has poured billions into robotics, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang helped popularize the term ' physical AI…
Robotics startups are courting university researchers. Microagi just hired eight.
For decades, the biggest advances in robotics came out of university labs. Now, as billions pour into physical AI, the researchers behind that work are launching and joining startups. The latest to recruit from academia is the German company…
Corgi has become insurance's wildest startup. Internal messages reveal the drama behind the scenes.
'If you can't raise a dog, you cannot run an office.' That was the message Nico Laqua, cofounder and CEO of buzzy insurance startup Corgi, sent to staff in the New York office about one of the company's short-legged mascots. A vet had told the…
Oura stock listing in limbo as smart ring startup delays IPO just days after launching it
Oura has been gearing up to go public all month. Now, it seems those plans have been put on the back burner. The California-based smart ring maker said on Tuesday that it will postpone its highly anticipated stock listing. Oura explained that it…
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage…
This $3,555 Humanoid Robot Learns New Chores in 30 Minutes, Startup Says
A humanoid robot that costs under $4,000 sounds too good to be true. But that's the price that Flourish Robots, a humanoid robot startup, has announced for its ready-to-ship Flourish 1 unit. At $3,555, the Flourish 1 home robot would be the…
A startup is trying to teach AI good taste. It could change how we figure out what we like.
When I was a young lad spending too much time on the internet, I was obsessed with fonts. I read blog posts on sites like Typographica about the finer points of kerning. I read white papers from Microsoft about the readability of Calibri compared…
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[REPORTERSNOTEBOOK] What's holding back innovation among Korean startups?
Korea's largest fashion shopping platform Musinsa is currently under investigation by the Seoul Regional Tax Office over CEO Cho Man-ho's alleged appropriation of corporate funds for his real estate investment spinoff firm, Lapel. The…
Vinay Gupta At Republic Summit 2026: Building A Trillion-Dollar Startup | ORN
ORN founder and CEO Vinay Gupta talks about building a trillion-dollar startup from India: vision, scale and the future of Indian tech.
Japan's Fusion Energy Startup to Begin Power-On Tests at Pilot Reactor in 2027
Japanese start-up Helical Fusion CEO Takaya Taguchi talks to Reuters about the company's strategy to develop its first nuclear fusion reactor, in Tokyo, Japan, August 14, 2024. REUTERS/Yuka Obayashi Japanese startup Helical Fusion expects to begin…
AI startup EliseAI valued at $4 billion in latest funding round
Sept 29: EliseAI said on Tuesday it was valued at $4 billion following its latest funding round, which nearly doubled the housing and healthcare-focused AI company's valuation from a year ago. The $350-million funding round was led by Andreessen…
Israeli startup develops injection-based diabetes app, receives FDA clearance
For decades, the standard of care for millions of people living with type 2 diabetes has operated under a fundamental paradox. While continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology has made real-time health data abundant, actual treatment…
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