Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to further flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and personal growth.
For many companies selling ancillary services or products (think insurance), the biggest problem when selling online is having their offering be surfaced at the right moment in the customer’s purchase journey — exactly when the customer’s most likely to spend that extra dollar to sweeten the deal.
With more and more shopping moving online, companies that make this possible by connecting service providers with distributors of products are understandably seeing an uptick in interest, both from customers and investors. One such company,…
In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed.
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models.
Nobody said that commercializing fusion power would be cheap or quick.
TAE Technologies said this week it raised another $150 million in a funding round that included investments from existing backers Google, Chevron, and New Enterprise associates.
By the nearly 30-year-old company’s counting, it’s TAE’s 12th round of investment. To date, it has raised about $1.8 billion, according to PitchBook, making it one of the highest funded fusion companies.
TAE, formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy, worked for years in stealth developing its…
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday.
Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. The company didn’t reveal the source of the data it used to train the model, but some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google’s Gemini family of AI.
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