Robinhood's $658M venture fund drops 16% in its public market debut on the NYSE; the fund offers retail investors access to private companies like Databricks
Robinhood's $658M venture fund drops 16% in its public market debut on the NYSE; the fund offers retail investors access to private companies like Databricks
Robinhood (HOOD.O) debuted its flagship $658.4 million venture fund on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday …
Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it “is the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”
The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie …
How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated
In the past few weeks, nearly $1 trillion was wiped from software and services stocks. FactSet dropped from a $20B peak to under $8B.
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan
The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan
The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots
Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia? @josephjacks_ : Ov...
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global
Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
Nvidia Corp. agreed to a licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq, furthering its investments in companies connected …
Google unveils Gemini 3, its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less “flattery”
The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’
Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who is its co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in July 2021
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
Figma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023
Figma's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO.
DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership
Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension. — No, that's not a legally available option. — The 270 days lapsed. An extension is no longer available (e...
TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”
The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok JV with 50% US ownership
President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,
Google debuts Whisk, an image generator that takes other images as prompts to suggest the subject, scene, and style, and uses the new, “latest” Imagen 3 version
Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text prompt.
Databricks raised $10B from a16z, Thrive, and others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; documents show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue
As CEO of Databricks, Ali Ghodsi has performed a series of ‘strategic surgeries’ to make his company one of the fastest-growing startups in Silicon Valley