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Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.
Source: TechCrunch · Dominic-Madori Davis
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Source: TechCrunch · Dominic-Madori Davis
Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
Source: Ars Technica · Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times
The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances.
Between crushing layoffs, ballooning budgets, and bland end products, video game makers need to stop chasing AAA glory.
Source: WIRED · Matt Kamen
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.
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 IPO.
Source: TechCrunch · Rebecca Bellan
OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.
Source: TechCrunch · Marina Temkin
TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.
Source: WIRED · Isabella Ward, Anna Desmarais