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Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price

Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via’s IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company’s IPO price before recovering at the

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OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

OpenAI announced Thursday it reached a nonbinding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, on a revised partnership that would allow the startup to convert its

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Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation

Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup that competes with Google by providing conversational answers to user queries, has secured $200 million in new capital at a

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Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate

Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational AI models, is in discussions

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ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on helping nations control their own sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) Series A

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Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea

Microsoft said Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform might experience increased latency after multiple undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, as

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EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’

The European Commission announced this week that it’s fining Google €2.95 billion (just under $3.5 billion). The commission found that Google had violated European Union

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class

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Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch

Rivian is laying off around 150 workers — its second small staff cut in a matter of months — as the company readies itself for

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Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers  

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its