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AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
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OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
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PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
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After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
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AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
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How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry
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Harbinger raises $240M after expanding into defense
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Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
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Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
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Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Hugging Face's Irene Solaiman joins Equity to explain what startups need to know when building on open AI models, and how to evaluate the tools around them and keep the open ecosystem secure.
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AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan…
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Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers
Readwise Books combines an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.
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Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
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AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal
Like a real-life episode of Suits, the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now, an AI firm has entered the picture.
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Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers
Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.
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Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
Watch as Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz joins the Equity podcast to break down how AI is changing vulnerability research and how startups can prepare for the next security scare.
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The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO
On Equity, Wiz’s Tomer Schwartz explains how AI is changing vulnerability research, why coordinated disclosure is so difficult, and how startups can prepare for the next security scare.
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Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."
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