The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats

The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bl [...]

Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model

A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology [...]

Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focus [...]

Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day – Interview Series

Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day, is an experienced business leader, brand builder, board director, and strategic advisor whose career spans artificial intelligence, consumer pr [...]

GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed

GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and it's seven poin [...]

Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company se [...]

Flock built an AI tool that lets police search for people by how they drive

The surveillance firm Flock Safety has told the public for years that its cameras “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a tool that does both, according to a new inv [...]

Prevalent AI Raises $22M to Scale Trusted Enterprise Context for AI Systems

Prevalent AI has raised $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP), marking the first primary outside investment in the London-based company’s nine-year history. The funding [...]

A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal

Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The [...]