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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…
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…
Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today's announcement, the…
Exclusive: Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights about maritime activity. That idea has proven popular, because…
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…
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.
AMD acquires startup cofounded by 'godmother of AI' Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion
Chipmaker AMD is acquiring World Labs, a two-year-old startup focused on physical AI that was cofounded by industry pioneer Fei-Fei Li. The $8.2 billion, all-stock deal will give AMD important technology in an emerging branch of AI that could power…
900 Applicants Wanted a Startup Internship. First, They Had to Meet a Surprising Old-School Requirement.
Flip phone startup Dumb.co required interns to hand-write cover letters after receiving a wave of generic AI applications. The startup received nearly 900 Handshake applications across four internship roles, and about 70% included handwritten…
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…
$4 Billion Startup 'Corgi' Melts Down Into Real Life Social Media 'Mean Girls
San Francisco insurance startup Corgi has found itself in the spotlight for reasons that have little to do with insurance, after controversial social media posts by employees triggered criticism, internal disagreement and questions about the…
Why AMD is buying World Labs, the startup founded by AI 'Godmother' Fei-Fei Li
Born in Chengdu, China, Li moved to the U.S. at age 15 to study physics and computer science. She was admitted to Princeton University, where she earned a degree in physics. She later earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California…
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