Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more âș
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With software and other sectors melting down at the merest hint of AI disruption, businesses that sell food and other consumer goods are finally getting some love. Thatâs good news for venture-backed companies like Hungryroot, which could benefit from investorsâ desires to AI-proof their portfolios. Hungryroot, which offers an app for ordering healthy groceries and makes its own line of products such as sauces and smoothies, is preparing for an... Read more âș
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Netflix sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that ByteDance take immediate steps to prevent its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0, from producing content that resembles the U.S. streaming giantâs characters, titles or settings, according to Deadline. Since the Chinese tech giant ... Read more âș
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OpenAI is finalizing initial commitments from investors in a round that could raise $100 billion at a $830 billion valuation including the investment, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising. SoftBank is expected to anchor the round with a $30 billion investment, which it will spread in three installments of $10 billion each through the year, according to the two people. Amazon, which supplies cloud services to... Read more âș
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âWe call Mark Zuckerberg to the stand.â Thus began Wednesdayâs nearly six hours of testimony from the Meta Platforms CEO in a trial of a lawsuit brought by a young woman against several tech companies including Meta, contending that social media causes depression and suicidal thoughts. I was in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom, where Zuckerberg, sitting in the witness stand with an exit sign over his right shoulder, came... Read more âș
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SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups, according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussions. The talks are in the early stages, and the firm does not yet have a target, but it could be in ... Read more âș
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Etsy said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell the clothing resale app Depop to eBay for roughly $1.2 billion. The sale, which is for less than the $1.6 billion Etsy paid for it five years ago, marks an abrupt reversal, since Etsy executives as recently as December were talking up spending to ... Read more âș
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DoorDash reported 38% higher revenue of $3.955 billion, thanks partly to the acquisition during the quarter of UK delivery firm Deliveroo. DoorDash projected a 37% lift in gross order volume in the first quarter, just a tad below the fourth quarter growth. DoorDash stock rose 8% in ... Read more âș
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Figma shares soared as much as 16% in after hours trading Wednesday as the design software company reported a slight acceleration in fourth quarter revenue growth of 40%, up from 38% in the third quarter. The results could reassure investors who have been dumping software stocks over concerns of ... Read more âș
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Los Angeles courtroom for several hours on Wednesday morning, rebutting questions from lawyers for a young woman who has sued Meta and other tech companies alleging her social media addiction led to depression and suicidal thoughts. As of Wednesday ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Metaâs plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more âș
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Snap said its subscription business had hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, as the number of people paying for a Snapchat+ subscription passed 25 million. The announcement is a rare bit of good news for Snap, which has reported weak ad growth in recent quarters. In 2025, Snapâs ad ... Read more âș
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A soon to be listed Robinhood fund that invests in private startups could lay a path for Silicon Valleyâincluding VC firmsâto raise more money from individual investors. Robinhood is raising $1 billion for the fund, which has the New York Stock Exchange ticker of RVI. The fund, Robinhood says, will invest in âbest-in-classâ private companies like Stripe, Databricks and Ramp. Those companies are largely off limits to everyday traders that... Read more âș
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Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine usersâ ... Read more âș
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A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI thatâs able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as youâd might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that theyâre... Read more âș
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Saudi state-backed artificial intelligence firm Humain said Wednesday that it had invested $3 billion into Elon Muskâs xAI as part of a funding round in January. The investment preceded SpaceXâs acquisition of xAI earlier this month, according to Humain. The Saudi AI firm, which is owned by the ... Read more âș
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The battle for AI talent is no longer just about landing the best AI researcher. People with experience developing giant AI data centers suddenly are among the most sought-after professionals in tech right now. While an array of big tech firms and other developers is committing billions to data centers for AI, few people have designed and built centers at the scale now required. Many of the large AI campuses... Read more âș
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OpenAI can shift some of its revenue-sharing payments to Microsoft to later years under the terms of the pairâs recently renegotiated partnership last fall, The Information reported Tuesday. This should reduce the impact of the payments on OpenAIâs cash flow. Last fall, OpenAI and Microsoft ... Read more âș
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Anthropic paid about $1.3 million in revenue share in 2024 to cloud providers for reselling Anthropicâs AI models, The Information reported on Tuesday. That figure is expected to rise to about $360 million last year, $1.9 billion this year and $6.4 billion next year, according to The Information ... Read more âș
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Take that, Sundar Pichai! Three months after we scooped news that Meta Platforms was in talks to spend billions on Google AI chipsâknown as tensor processing unitsâfor its data centers, Meta and Nvidia unveiled an expanded âmultiyear, multigenerational strategic partnership.â Meta is a longtime Nvidia customer, of course, but it is recommitting to using âmillionsâ of Nvidiaâs AI chips as well as other Nvidia processors and gear. Itâs not clear... Read more âș
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