Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a developer tool startup, according to lead backer Felicis. His new company, Entire, has secured sixty million dollars at a three hundred million dollar valuation. Entire provides an…
India has ordered social media platforms to increase their policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations. The government has also sharply shortened the time these companies have to comply with official takedown orders. This move could reshape how global tech…
Hauler Hero has secured fresh funding as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to grow. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth. The round included participation from I2BF Global…
AI video generation startup Runway has raised a $315 million Series E round. This investment nearly doubles the company’s valuation to $5.3 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. The fresh funds will allow Runway to pre-train the…
For much of his career, Mohamed Mohamed worked at institutions like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey. He observed that these firms treated real estate as a computational problem. They utilized proprietary data pipelines, internal valuation models, simulation tools, and early…
Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million Fund V, focused on seed investing nationwide. This is a sizeable fund for a firm that focuses solely on early-stage investing, and it perhaps showcases how the size of early-stage rounds has dramatically…
Swedish music streaming giant Spotify achieved a record number of users last quarter. This growth was driven by its popular year-end “Wrapped” campaign, which provides users with personalized listening statistics, and by new features on its free service tier. The…
YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist generation feature for Premium users on iOS and Android. This tool allows subscribers to create playlists using simple text or voice prompts. To get started, users can go to the Library tab,…
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it. That is the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions…
As artificial intelligence data centers contribute to rising electricity prices, a London-based startup named Tem believes AI can also be part of the solution. Tem has developed an energy transaction engine that uses AI to secure lower prices compared to…
