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Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round [438d]
Boon raises $20.5M to build agentic AI tools for fleets [438d]
A bad experience with an accounting firm spurred this founder to start Aiwyn [438d]
Meet the robot with two Guinness World Records for basketball [438d]
TuSimple pivot from self-driving to AI animation is complete with CreateAI rebrand [438d]
Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z [438d]
Real estate VC Fifth Wall is raising $500M for a new fund [438d]
In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation led by Thrive, sources say [438d]
Backed by a16z and NEA, Backflip raises $30M Series A to turn text into AI-generated designs [438d]
Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, blogs, and more, will launch in ‘early 2025’ [438d]
Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to icon Jean Jennings [438d]