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Axios TechnologyValleyWhy Anthropic can't afford to delay its IPO Anthropic's impending IPO will test a jittery Wall Street , but investors say the timing isn't optional. The reason is simple math: the AI giant has grown too big for private fundraising.
Tech in AsiaAsiaThese are the most active investors in India’s startups Which investors are writing the most checks to India-based startups?
Tech.euEuropeScaleup Europe Fund leads $250M funding round in Pigment French enterprise software startup Pigment has raised $250m at a $2.3bn valuation, it said today, in a funding round led by the EU's new €5bn ($5.6bn) investment fund aimed at scaling up future…
The DecoderOpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind.
MediaNamaAsiaAfter ED’s WhatsApp pump-and-dump searches, Zerodha founder points investors to AI chatbots Nithin Kamath, Zerodha founder and CEO has asked retail investors to use an AI chatbot for any stock tips they get via messaging apps, “so the next time you get a message promising easy money, just…
TechNodeAsiaCleaning robotics startup Jingji Intelligent raises tens of millions of RMB in seed funding Shanghai-based cleaning robotics startup Jingji Intelligent has raised tens of millions of RMB in seed funding from Haowen Tianshu Robotics and Shanghai Lanyun Industrial Development.
Tech.euEuropeYGO secures €8M to scale its AI-powered travel infrastructure YGO , a company developing an AI-powered platform connecting travel companies with airlines, hotels and tour operators, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round led by Ventech , with…
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Tech in AsiaAsiaAnthropic could spend $750b on computing power: report Anthropic spent nearly US$9 billion on computing capacity and infrastructure in the period.
SCMP TechAsiaNvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over whether the massive artificial intelligence…
SiftedEuropeExclusive: Photon Bridge raises €10m to build laser devices that connect AI chips The Dutch startup says its laser technology can be manufactured at scale to meet the demands of fast-growing AI infrastructure
Inc42AsiaJio Platforms IPO: QIB Quota Booked Within Minutes, Issue Subscribed 58% So Far Reliance Industries’ digital services arm Jio Platforms saw its qualified institutional buyers’ (QIBs) portion fully subscribed within minutes of opening its IPO today, with the overall issue booked…
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Financial Times TechEuropeThe $15bn ‘viral’ AI start-up changing how American doctors treat patients Founder of OpenEvidence chatbot says two-thirds of US physicians use the ad-powered tool, prompting a debate about patient care
Google AI BlogLabsSoutheast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion Widespread AI adoption is propelling Southeast Asia's digital economy to a projected $368 billion in 2026 and $1 trillion by 2035.
SiliconANGLEValleyAI infrastructure management software startup ASI hits $3B valuation after raising $325M in funding An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc., which builds complex models of air traffic and energy grids, said today it has scored $325 million in a Series C funding, bringing its valuation to…
SiliconANGLEValleySpaceX’s stock soars as Elon Musk reveals crushing earnings and revenue beat Shares of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Elon Musk’s rocket developer and artificial intelligence company, gained more than 8% in late trading today after posting earnings results that…
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The InformationValleyNvidia Moves to Back GPU Cloud Provider Firmus After Investors Balk at Its IPO Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Australian AI cloud provider Firmus, which abruptly pulled its initial public offering early this month, according to people familiar…
TechCrunch AIValleyAnthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November…
Amazon ScienceResearchStrengthening AI safety evaluation through independent third-party review As frontier AI models grow in capability, so does the importance of ensuring that safety evaluations are rigorous and comprehensive.
Hugging Face BlogLabsFairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making Today we’re introducing FairStress , a benchmark for measuring demographic fairness in LLMs beyond the choice a model ultimately makes in decisions impacting people.
Ai2LabsFairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making FairStress is a new benchmark that reveals demographic differences in how LLMs defend and explain their decisions, even when their final choices appear fair.
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OpenAI NewsLabsTerminal X matches senior investor judgment 88.6% with GPT-6.1 Terminal X’s Eval Agent grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric, catching 25% more deviances from a fund’s mandate with GPT-6.1 Sol.
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OpenAI NewsLabsOpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.
AI Snake OilVoicesNew paper: Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation By Felix Chen, Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan. See the full author list and affiliations here .
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