Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models
On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and…
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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…
Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue stalls
In Brief Posted: 6:41 PM PDT · September 8, 2025 Connie Loizos Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue…
Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer…
Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants
Indian e-commerce startup Citymall, which focuses on budget-focused grocery delivery for tier 2 and tier 3 towns, said today that…
Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say
Assort Health, a startup that uses AI to automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices, has raised about $50 million…
Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down
Cohere on Thursday announced that it had raised an oversubscribed $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. This…
Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users
Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly…
Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyJob hunting is a fresh kind of hell. Hours are wasted sifting through open…
ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers
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Venture firm CRV raises $750M, downsizing after returning capital to investors
CRV has secured $750 million toward the 55-year-old venture firm’s twentieth flagship fund, it announced on Friday. The new fund…
At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M
A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential…
Quora’s Poe releases a developer API with access to a bouquet of AI models
Quora’s AI platform Poe announced on Thursday that it’s releasing an API that allows developers to easily access different models…
GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users
GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, CEO Satya…