Last month, news broke that New York’s hottest venture firm, Thrive, raised ten billion dollars for a new fund. That fund was its largest ever, doubling the size of its previous one. Now, another big-name venture firm is attempting to…
Last month, New York’s hottest venture firm, Thrive, raised ten billion dollars for a new fund, which was its largest ever and double the size of its previous one. Now, another big-name VC firm is attempting to equal that raise.…
The surge of investment in artificial intelligence continues to fuel a rapid rise in startup valuations. Based on data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, a number of venture-backed companies achieved unicorn status, valued at one billion dollars or more, in the…
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round. The financing was co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. This new investment follows a $115…
WordPress publishing software can now run entirely in a web browser. The organization behind the open source platform announced this new capability on Wednesday. Through a service called my.WordPress.net, users can set up a site and begin publishing without signing…
In 2023, an unidentified foreign hacker breached the FBI’s field office in New York. The hacker compromised files related to the bureau’s investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to a report citing a source familiar with the breach…
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta acquired Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it left many people confused. What would an ad-supported company like Meta want with a platform populated by bots? After all, bots are not the…
Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has unveiled its second vehicle, a smaller medium-duty work truck called the HC Series Cab. The new truck will be available as an all-electric vehicle or as a hybrid, with the hybrid version offering up…
David Ashton grew up outside of Sacramento, California, and attended college in San Luis Obispo during the historic drought of the late 2000s. For years, he drove the 300-mile stretch between the two cities, captivated by the endless lettuce farms,…
Transcription and note-taking have emerged as a prime use case for wearable gadgets as AI models advance voice-to-text technology. We are seeing differentiation in the market, with startups like Plaud and Pocket specializing in products that can record and summarize…
