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Clarifai introduces vendor-agnostic orchestration capabilities
Clarifai, once known as the young computer vision startup working with the Pentagon on its controversial Project Maven, has distanced itself from its early years of espousing questionable ideas on AI ethics, its interest in building autonomous weapons — years before Silicon Valley warmed up to defense tech — and its potential cyberbreach from Russia.
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Clarifai, once known as the young computer vision startup working with the Pentagon on its controversial Project Maven, has distanced itself from its early years of espousing questionable ideas on AI ethics, its interest in building autonomous weapons — years before Silicon Valley warmed up to defense tech — and its potential cyberbreach from Russia. […]
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ThredUp fashion marketplace offloads its European business, Remix
Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp expanded into Europe in 2021 with the acquisition of Remix, a Bulgarian startup that operates across a handful of central and eastern European markets. Back in May, ThredUp announced a new general manager, Florin Filote, to lead
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Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp expanded into Europe in 2021 with the acquisition of Remix, a Bulgarian startup that operates across a handful of central and eastern European markets. Back in May, ThredUp announced a new general manager, Florin Filote, to lead […]
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SpinLaunch raises $11M but hoped to raise much more, source says
Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to TechCrunch, but
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Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to TechCrunch, but […]
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India’s Zyod raises $18M to expand its tech-enabled fashion manufacturing to more countries
The Gurugram-based startup works with Indian factories to help them manufacture fashion wear for global brands.
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The Gurugram-based startup works with Indian factories to help them manufacture fashion wear for global brands.
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Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code
Emergence on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding.
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Emergence on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding.
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OpenAI buys a remote collaboration platform
OpenAI is on an M&A tear. Days after acquiring database tech firm Rockset, OpenAI has purchased Multi (previously Remotion), a startup developing a enterprise-focused, video-first collaboration platform. A source familiar with the matter says that the deal is technically an acquihire and that most of Multi’s team — around five people — will join OpenAI
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OpenAI is on an M&A tear. Days after acquiring database tech firm Rockset, OpenAI has purchased Multi (previously Remotion), a startup developing a enterprise-focused, video-first collaboration platform. A source familiar with the matter says that the deal is technically an acquihire and that most of Multi’s team — around five people — will join OpenAI […]
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Matt Rogers, Nest and Mill co-founder, talks mastering consumer tech at Disrupt 2024
Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, his new startup that promises to turn your table scraps into planet-saving treasure. Mill burst out of the gate last year after spending some time in stealth refining its waste bin, an easy to
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Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, his new startup that promises to turn your table scraps into planet-saving treasure. Mill burst out of the gate last year after spending some time in stealth refining its waste bin, an easy to […]
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Prosus zeroes out 9.6% Byju’s stake
Prosus, a big investor in Byju’s, says its share in the Indian edtech startup is now worth nothing, but it is still hopeful that the once-most valuable Indian startup can be salvaged. Prosus, the largest external investor in Byju’s with a 9.6% stake, wrote off the startup “due to the significant decrease in value for
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Prosus, a big investor in Byju’s, says its share in the Indian edtech startup is now worth nothing, but it is still hopeful that the once-most valuable Indian startup can be salvaged. Prosus, the largest external investor in Byju’s with a 9.6% stake, wrote off the startup “due to the significant decrease in value for […]
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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.
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Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.
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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.
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18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.
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