A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”
The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's deemed the artificial intelligence company and its products a risk to the US supply chain …
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models
Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia
Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia
Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent
After helping to oversee the launch of two of the most influential AI models in recent years - OpenAI's GPT-3.5, also known as ChatGPT …
Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others
In April, J Zac Stein took his cofounder Henry Liu out to dinner to pitch him on a new product: a model for detecting when code was generated by AI.
Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart
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Salt Lake City-based Filevine, which offers tools to help manage legal workflows, raised $400M from Insight Partners, Accel, Halo Fund, and others in two rounds
Filevine Inc., the developer of a software platform that helps attorneys create and manage legal documents, has raised $400 million in funding.
Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : X: @alexrkonrad , @andrei_serban , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A round from DST Global a...
HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $44M Series B led by Base10 Partners, a source says at a ~$500M valuation
HappyRobot, an artificial intelligence startup that automates communications including rate negotiation and appointment booking for freight operators …
Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products
1/ Today we're proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.
A look at OneChronos, as it seeks to create “smart markets” that would allow firms to trade GPU compute like other commodities, such as electricity and oil
OneChronos teamed up with prize-winning economist Paul Milgrom of Auctionomics to develop the world's first financial market for GPU compute. Bluesky: @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Stephen Johnson and Kell...
AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG
Insurance Unlocks Secure AI Progress We're navigating a tightrope as Superintelligence nears. Sourcery with Molly O'Shea on YouTube : Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | A...
UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M+ valuation
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Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A
combining real-time signals, AI agents and a unified workflow to [image] Yash Godiwala / @yashgodiwala : One of my favorite crossover episodes Congrats to the Unify team on their Series B More fuel to...
Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark
The pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is now valued at $100 million … Bluesky: @alexrkonrad . X: @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Alex Konrad Bluesky:...
Browserbase, which develops headless browsers for AI agents and apps, raised a $40M Series B led by Notable Capital at a $300M valuation, up ~4x since September
Startup Browserbase argues so — claiming its headless browsers democratize publicly available data for others to build AI agents that can improve our lives. — It's now raised $40M in funding to try ...
Source: Meta is in advanced talks to hire Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to help lead its AI efforts and maybe partly buy out their VC fund, NFDG, worth billions
Meta Platforms is in advanced talks to hire the prominent artificial intelligence investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross …
Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, which makes a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for ~$1B
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