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Venture Capital Startups

Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Harvey AI raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation just four months after its previous $300 million round, marking the highest valuation for any legal AI startup as the company plans global expansion and moves beyond legal services.

Startups Research

Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski is putting $100 million of personal funds behind Laude Institute, a grant-style venture that’s kicking off with a five-year, $15 million commitment to an AI Systems Lab at UC Berkeley.

Apptronik Robotics

Apptronik Spins off Elevate Robotics to Build "Superhuman" Industrial Robots

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Apptronik announced Elevate Robotics, a subsidiary developing industrial robots "beyond the limits of the human form," led by Plus One Robotics co-founder Paul Hvass.

Google Robotics

Google Announces On-Device Gemini Robotics Model

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Google DeepMind launches its first on-device Gemini Robotics model that can control robots locally without cloud connectivity, tackling privacy and latency issues that have plagued cloud-based robotics.

Thinking Machines Startups Venture Capital

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises $2B for Thinking Machines at $10B valuation

By Chris McKay • Jun 20, 2025

Andreessen Horowitz is leading a jaw-dropping $2 billion seed round that values Mira Murati’s stealthy Thinking Machines Lab at $10 billion.

This 6-month-old AI startup just sold to Wix for $80 million

By Chris McKay • Jun 19, 2025

Amazon

Amazon CEO tells Staff AI will Shrink Company's Workforce in Coming Years

By Chris McKay • Jun 17, 2025

OpenAI Military & Defense

OpenAI Awarded $200M US Defense Contract, Announces OpenAI for Government

By Chris McKay • Jun 17, 2025

AI Policy

NY Lawmakers Pass Landmark Bill Targeting Frontier AI Risks

By Chris McKay • Jun 13, 2025

Meta Scale

Meta Bets $14.3 Billion on Scale AI—and Its CEO—to Lead New Superintelligence Lab

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

OpenAI

Barbie Could Get an AI Upgrade Thanks to Mattel's New OpenAI Partnership

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

Google

Google's AI Can Now Predict Hurricane Paths 15 Days Out — and the Hurricane Center Is Using It

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

OpenAI Op-ed

Sam Altman says the Singularity is Here, and it's Disappointingly Boring

By Chris McKay • Jun 11, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI Just Made o3-pro Available to More People and Cut the Price by 87%

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

Enterprise AI Venture Capital Startups

Glean Doubles Down on AI Agents with $150M Raise as Enterprise Adoption Explodes

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s "Climate in a Bottle" AI Model Can Simulate Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

AI Infrastructure Chips

Qualcomm to Buy Alphawave Semi for $2.4B

By Chris McKay • Jun 9, 2025

Op-ed Apple

Do Airplanes Fly? Do Submarines Swim? Does AI Think?

By Chris McKay • Jun 9, 2025

Google Gemini

Google Just Quietly Upgrated Gemini 2.5 Pro

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Anthropic Military & Defense

Anthropic's New Government AI Models Signal the Defense Tech Gold Rush is Real

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Google

Google’s AI Future: Expansive, Ambitious, and Full of Questions

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Amazon AI Infrastructure

Amazon Drops $10B on North Carolina Data Centers to Power Its AI Push

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

OpenAI Enterprise AI

ChatGPT Can Now Search Your Files, Emails, and Meeting Notes

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

Anthropic

Reddit Sues Anthropic for Allegedly Scraping Its Data Without Permission

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

Mistral Enterprise AI

Mistral Launches All-in-One Coding Assistant, Mistral Code

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

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Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation

Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million

Apptronik Spins off Elevate Robotics to Build "Superhuman" Industrial Robots

Google Announces On-Device Gemini Robotics Model

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises $2B for Thinking Machines at $10B valuation

This 6-month-old AI startup just sold to Wix for $80 million

Amazon CEO tells Staff AI will Shrink Company's Workforce in Coming Years

OpenAI Awarded $200M US Defense Contract, Announces OpenAI for Government

NY Lawmakers Pass Landmark Bill Targeting Frontier AI Risks

Meta Bets $14.3 Billion on Scale AI—and Its CEO—to Lead New Superintelligence Lab

Barbie Could Get an AI Upgrade Thanks to Mattel's New OpenAI Partnership

Google's AI Can Now Predict Hurricane Paths 15 Days Out — and the Hurricane Center Is Using It

Sam Altman says the Singularity is Here, and it's Disappointingly Boring

OpenAI Just Made o3-pro Available to More People and Cut the Price by 87%

Glean Doubles Down on AI Agents with $150M Raise as Enterprise Adoption Explodes

NVIDIA’s "Climate in a Bottle" AI Model Can Simulate Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution

Qualcomm to Buy Alphawave Semi for $2.4B

Do Airplanes Fly? Do Submarines Swim? Does AI Think?

Google Just Quietly Upgrated Gemini 2.5 Pro

Anthropic's New Government AI Models Signal the Defense Tech Gold Rush is Real

Google’s AI Future: Expansive, Ambitious, and Full of Questions

Amazon Drops $10B on North Carolina Data Centers to Power Its AI Push

ChatGPT Can Now Search Your Files, Emails, and Meeting Notes

Reddit Sues Anthropic for Allegedly Scraping Its Data Without Permission

Mistral Launches All-in-One Coding Assistant, Mistral Code