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Inflection AI, led by LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders, raises $225M to transform computer-human interactions

TechCrunch

Just last month, Adept , a startup co-founded by former DeepMind, OpenAI and Google engineers and researchers, emerged from stealth with a similar concept: AI that can automate any software process. .” In 2018, a tax filing spotted by the New York Times revealed that OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: CoreWeave’s $1.1B Raise Leads Huge Week

Crunchbase News

billion round led by Coatue that values the company at $19 billion, per The Wall Street Journal. The valuation represents an almost threefold increase from the company’s valuation just five months ago, when it was valued at $7 billion following a secondary sale , and a huge jump from its $2 billion valuation in a Series B extension last May.

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Eye On AI: Oh The Humanity — Everybody’s In A Rush To Reassure AI Development Will Help Us

Crunchbase News

million Series C led by March Capital at a $550 million valuation. Founded in 2018, Overjet has now raised approximately $133 million, per the company. The Wall Street Journal reported the deal is being finalized and the new valuation. Boston-based Overjet locked up a $53.2 No new funding amount was disclosed.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

In November 2018, TechCrunch reported that FedEx was working with a relatively new and unknown startup as it ramped up its efforts to electrify its fleet of delivery vans. Chanje reportedly still owes “many” of its former employees months of back pay and promised bonuses, with at least four having filed suit against the startup.

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The curious case of the disappearing Hydrox cookies

The Hustle

The underdog and the trust In March 1912, the first batch of Oreos produced for sale was shipped from Nabisco’s six-story Romanesque-style headquarters in Manhattan to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1912, the Wall Street Journal described Sunshine, “an independent,” as an example of successful competition against “an alleged trust.”

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The House that Tech Built: Habitat for Humanity and Our “Care Deeply” Initiative

Praxent

We also donated two weekdays of company-wide participation on paid company time for a total four-month — long effort from March to June, 2019. >> Find out what’s inspired UX designer, Nick Comito, to stick with the Praxent team for ten years and counting. In November, 2018 we hit a major financial milestone for the company.

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AI at the Edge Ushers in the Hyperconnected Era

d2iq

In 2018, the survey notes, only 10% of enterprise-generated data was created andprocessed outside traditional centralized data centers or cloud services. Deloitte sees AI revolutionizing industries as diverse as health care, law, journalism, aerospace, and manufacturing, with the potential to profoundly affect how people live, work, and play.”By