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When Founders Fund earlier this year set out to raise its latest fund, a $6 billion vehicle to back mature startups like Anduril, it was the first time in the firm’s two-decade history it had asked its limited partners for more cash within two years of its prior fundraise.
The reason: It had already blown through the $4.6 billion fund it raised last year, thanks to investments in seven startups, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ramp and Cognition, with an average check size of $600 million, according to a pers
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"If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake," reports Bloomberg. "Not so in a robotaxi..." Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi's speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend's birthday party in 2025. The next moment, Los Angeles firefighters were opening the door and asking if he was OK. His six-minute... Read more ›
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Researchers have developed a new AR display technology that improves real-world visibility while keeping virtual objects realistic, making future smart glasses safer and more practical. Read more ›
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It’s midsummer, but now is not the time to be on the beach. This week, we’ve got Alphabet, Google’s parent, and Tesla reporting second-quarter earnings, and the week after, we’ll get Meta Platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and PayPal, a company in the takeover spotlight right now. Of most interest, of course, is how Google, Amazon and Microsoft are doing on the AI front, both in their cloud businesses and in... Read more ›
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A group of states, led by California and including New York, Washington, and Connecticut, is planning to sue to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, The New York Times reported. The lawsuit, which is expected to argue that the deal would harm competition for ... Read more ›
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Online fashion retailer Shein received Chinese regulatory approval to list in Hong Kong, capping off the e-commerce platform’s tumultuous two-year quest to float its shares. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement on Friday that it had approved Shein’s application to sell ... Read more ›
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Samsung Electronics aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, by 2029, bringing the timeline forward by up to two years, according to a Samsung spokesperson. The move comes amid a surging demand for memory chips and the AI infrastructure boom. ... Read more ›
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One promise of the blockchain is that it could simplify the behind-the-scenes work of stock trades on Wall Street. That vision is due for its first real-world test in the coming days, when market infrastructure giant the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. plans to demonstrate live stock trades on the blockchain. Still, the exercise will be modest. After years of work by the biggest U.S. clearinghouse to bring stocks onto... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms said Monday it will invest an additional $50 billion to more than double the planned computing capacity of its Louisiana data center to five gigawatts from the two gigawatts originally announced in 2024. The data center was already Meta’s largest computing facility. Five gigawatts ... Read more ›
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I’m only slightly jet-lagged after coming back from last week’s International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul, where AI researchers from around the world shared new ways to run and train models more efficiently. Oh, and they also discussed the looming possibility of AI automating away their jobs. (Check out my newsletter on that subject from Saturday here.) Thankfully for OpenAI, the conference ended before Apple filed its blockbuster lawsuit... Read more ›
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Google is kicking off a ground war with Nvidia.While Google is one of the biggest buyers of Nvidia AI server chips, it has also been developing its own competing AI chip business that represents a threat to Nvidia’s dominant market share. Before this year, Google’s tensor processing units were housed almost entirely in Google facilities and could only be rented from Google Cloud. Now Google is trying to sell those... Read more ›
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Smartphone shipments around the world fell 11% in the second quarter, Counterpoint Research reported on Monday, which it said was the lowest second quarter levels in 13 years. The research firm attributed the sales drop to rising prices for smartphones caused by higher memory chip costs, which ... Read more ›
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You have to admire Meta Platforms’ public relations savvy. Its Monday announcement that it was putting an additional $40 billion into its giant Louisiana data center—making its total investment in the facility $50 billion—was perfectly designed to win over what has become a critical constituency in the data center market: local communities. “Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Date Center” was the headline on the press release.... Read more ›
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Chinese humanoid startup LimX Dynamics said on Tuesday it had closed a pre-IPO funding round at a 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) valuation, after raising $200 million from investors in China and around the world. The round is led by IDG Capital, one of China’s leading venture firms, Lens ... Read more ›
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